Why ship Farcaster Pro with just a badge? Why not wait until the other benefits are ready?

1. It’s optional. If you think that’s dumb, you can either wait to subscribe or just skip subscribing completely. 

2. For startups, every day you delay something matters. Every time you say “this thing is different and worth delaying” you degrade your one true advantage as a startup: speed. It compounds. And then a few years later when it ultimately doesn’t work out, you likely missed out on something like 100% more opportunities to ship. Action produces information. Your pre-product-market-fit startup is not Apple.

If there is a caste system of recognition through badge access, I don't agree, it's better to let the business have benefits. There are many bad experiences of members of large communities being abandoned by their members due to injustice and a lack of mutual respect between the community and the owner.