I was cleaning offices for ServiceMaster. I came across a toilet with diarrhea sprayed all over it. I thought, this is not my destiny, walked out of the bathroom, drove the equipment back to ServiceMaster and quit.
If I respond that I'm not looking for 6 months to a year, many people will thanks me for a response, and update their CRM (or whatever it is called) tool. Otherwise, ignore/delete.
I've been waiting for this for years as well. I would think some group of publishers would partner with some micropayment tool. Maybe, you buy a pool of tokens, and if you don't have a subscription to a magazine, you can apply a token. I think it would require some cash, management, and connections to create an initial pool of publishers that would make the service viable (ie, I already have 10 subscriptions, so I would need n more that I don't want to before I would fund some pool). Because it doesn't exist, and seems so obvious, I also expect that it doesn't happen for other contractual/competitive reasons. But, here's hoping some entrepreneur takes it on.
Also remember that many great opportunities will not have as their only states litmus test the usage of VIM. Not even most people that prefer that environment would use it as a litmus.
As a corollary, in software engineering, it's amazing how often people will insist upon removing "redundant" parenthesis in code reviews or when they refactor code. Even if there is a well-defined order-of-operations, parens can communicate that the intention of the author was indeed the same as the outcome.