With regards to the recording feature... I don't feel it makes sense that recording a meeting is currently limited to paid tiers (I am a paid teir user for the record) given that it works completely locally.

Surely a better way to do this would be to allow recording locally (up to say 30 minutes) but then limit recording to longer periods to the paid tiers?

While also introducing cloud recording (direct to proton drive)? For unlimited timeframes for paying customers...