I agree with you, Ted. 100%.
Even though Flickr has imposed a small fee ($40.00/yr) for me to store 1000+ photos, they gave me ample warning (6+ months) and gave me the opportunity to cut down my photo quantities, which I chose not to. Then PB comes back from their ridiculous ransom note demands of $400 per year and tells everyone they can once again have limited storage space really cheap...and then plasters their disgusting watermark all over the photos.
They send me emails once a week lately asking me to pay the now $7.00 monthly ransom so my photos don't get deleted. I already transferred the good ones over to Flickr.
What goes around, comes around. They can go piss up a rope.