Why?

A couple of days ago a group of very very talented scrappers announced that they had started a brand new business. They call themselves The Design Collective and will be doing online classes, These will cost £10 a month for 12 classes. This is a brand new venture for them and i wish them luck. To find out more you can read about it on Inspire me and their own Blog.
Now the reason i am posting about this here is that there has been quite a bit of bad blood about this from a couple of people. I understand about freedom of speech and i'm all for it. What i don't like it when someone is openly mean. I have read a bit of what was said and it has really got to me, when i read it i was screaming at the computer "bloody hell, silly stupid cow" and alot worse. Someone has said to effect that this is a crap idea and why pay for this when you can get it all for free. The truth is you really can't get the input that these ladies put into there work for free. Yes you can buy scrapbooking magazines but there are only two now when there used to be at least five. The magazines just don't show the techniques and have the wow factor that so many people want. If you buy a magazine it costs at least £4 and doesn't have much in it and because of this i have just stoppped subcribing to a magazine that i have brought since it started. You can look at lots of layouts online that have the wow factor but it doesn't give step by step intructions on how to do it. There are free cyber crops but they always push the need to buy kits to used and more oftan than not you do need this kit to do the page as the stash you have just isn't right. The recent couple of CC's on one site just didn't inspire me at all. I love CC's that are inspiring and i have taken part in CC's on one site that really inspired me and every class i went wow and if i had had the stash and photos i would have done every class.
There are other people and places that offer online classes that have to be paid for like Big Picture Scrapbooking and Shimelle Lane so why is this any different?
As the old saying goes nothing in life is free.
What i don't get about this person is that they are on several design teams so she gets to play with brand new stash in return for doing projects for the shops. So she/he can make LO's with stuff that is just out. (Yes alot of people work for design teams and do a wonderful job showing us what we can do with it i have seen amazing work.) It could be a case of sour grapes as a couple of the people in the DC have been/are on the same teams. This person asked for a debate on this subject to and then gets upset when people disagree, Why? If you think that something is a bad idea fair enough but to then go on and bad mouth it and expect sympathy and hugs because there are people that disagree with you for goodness sake grow up.
Yes we all have our own opinions and that is a good thing as it would all be boring if we were all the same.
I wish the girls the best of luck with this new venture.