All Day Maintenance and Compensation: My Thoughts

[Talraen]

And as many people keep saying "hurr durr, it's just 1 day every 3+ months, get over it", so why is it so much to ask that SE grant us 2-3 free days of play per year in exchange for our continued money and support. And again, as many people said, it's about 50 cents a day, so SE would lose ~$1.50-$2.00 out of my $156 a year sub.

It's because maintenance is already part of your sub. And I don't mean in a monetary sense, I mean in a "we know these are going to happen" sense. To compensate for this, you have three choices: you can refund for the lost day, you can add a day to everyone's sub after each maintenance, or you can price the "refund"/lost day into the sub price. The last option is by far the simplest to implement, and in my view that makes it the best. So who's to say they haven't done this? How would you know, philosophically, whether your sub fee includes maintenance days or not? I mean, aside from them being explicitly in the terms of service.