I am not sure about that. I do not believe enough people even know about Sailfish.

Really? I managed to completely miss that point. That is quite a serious drawback.

I have been seriously considering an X Compact (you can get vanilla X cheaper but boy are they huge!) and even have a few earmarked on eBay even though I am not exactly in the position to spend on frivolities, but this Microsoftish behaviour (you "rent" software, not buy it) is a very serious argument for saving my money.