When reading through the comments, it's mentioned that one of the reasons for the license change is because of people abusing the free hobbyist license:
> [...] as talked about in the announcement, we did not make these decisions lightly, but it is necessary in order for us to continue support Fusion 360 for Personal Use as a free offering, cut down on abuse of the license type, and continue to develop advanced capabilities.
The issue of charging from the software is distinct from the issue of enforcing the requirement that the license is for non-commercial purposes. Even if they had a low cost hobbyist license with all the features unlocked, the people currently using the hobbyist license for commercial purposes would just use the inexpensive one as opposed to paying for the full commercial one.
Autodesk could've taken the approach of sending sternly worded letters to commercial users using the hobbyist license, or even deactivating commercial users with the wrong license type, since their software is partly cloud-based and requires an Autodesk account and internet connection. Instead, they've taken the approach of changing the feature set, which is why some people are annoyed.
I kinda see where they're coming from though. The account of times I've seen a business user carelessly closing the "please play fair" box of TeamViewer... And I'm not talking small businesses either.
> [...] as talked about in the announcement, we did not make these decisions lightly, but it is necessary in order for us to continue support Fusion 360 for Personal Use as a free offering, cut down on abuse of the license type, and continue to develop advanced capabilities.
The issue of charging from the software is distinct from the issue of enforcing the requirement that the license is for non-commercial purposes. Even if they had a low cost hobbyist license with all the features unlocked, the people currently using the hobbyist license for commercial purposes would just use the inexpensive one as opposed to paying for the full commercial one.
Autodesk could've taken the approach of sending sternly worded letters to commercial users using the hobbyist license, or even deactivating commercial users with the wrong license type, since their software is partly cloud-based and requires an Autodesk account and internet connection. Instead, they've taken the approach of changing the feature set, which is why some people are annoyed.