well, what might be considered "simple" is not entirely simple. sure, i could send out the packages to anyone, provisioned locally. sure.

but... doing a demo with license checks really, really, really well...? that takes time, care, and impact user-experience.

i decided that i didn't have time (yet) to implement a really kick-ass demo / trial version... but in the future i'd like to take a serious look at it.

context is important: as an indie developer i only have so much (so little) time to invest... i have to really carefully choose my battles of where i spend that time... and that's really the hardest part of it all.