The photo editing app got me too. Paid for a year of it after a free trial, used it maybe three times, then forgot it existed until the renewal notice hit my inbox with a cheerful reminder that I was about to be charged again. Canceling those feels like getting a tiny raise, especially when you tally up the yearly totals. The one that really stung for me was a news site I signed up for during election season. Kept paying $8 a month for a year and a half, never once opened a single article after the first week. Canceled it last month and the weird part is I don't miss it at all, so the money was basically going to a ghost. What gets me is the apps that make canceling a chore. One of them wanted me to jump through three screens and answer a survey about why I was leaving. Made me wonder how many people just give up and keep paying out of pure annoyance.

Yeah, that wet splice thing hit home for me. Last fall I did a repair on a buried drop near a sprinkler line and thought it was sealed good, but the next week the loss went from nothing to 3.1 dB and the customer was furious. I switched to fusion only for anything within five feet of the ground or in a box, and I haven't had a single callback since. That 0.2 to 2.8 jump you saw matches my experience exactly, moisture just creeps in and wrecks the light path over a couple days.