Storage always feels cheap at the start because no one has to take responsibility for keeping it alive. Renewal is where that cost is confronted.
Walrus makes renewal a conscious act. You either recommit for another period or you allow the data to expire — no silent auto-renewals that turn yesterday’s convenience into today’s burden.
That pause on Walrus isn’t procrastination. It’s the moment accountability is formalized, when someone explicitly owns the decision to keep data around.