I think the price increase is too much for what we're given, and what many people need from webflow. I teach a class on webflow and considering that the students now need to spend $23/month to learn how to launch a site in webflow is pretty unreasonable for them. And the student plans for webflow don't allow the students to publish a CMS website.
I think a good solution would be a "portfolio" plan - with less cms options, and less form submissions. Just enough to make a nice portfolio site, but remain affordable.
I second this. I've been paying a freelancer membership + hosting for 2-3 years in a row now, and in the meantime, hardly did any editing. My portfolio website is made of just a few static pages and the hosting used to cost $5 a month, then suddenly jumped up to $18/month. How much operating costs does Webflow actually have each month to keep it running? I am paying for a Freelancer plan just because I want to keep the ability to have my own domain name, but could that at least include a free hosting up to a certain limit of traffic? Over $400/year is not worth it!