After earlier stating I'd be parting ways with Flickr over this, I realized I am out of time to get the staggering number of my photos moved over to my own domain before the end of the year - too much going on to bother with this right now.
So given the 30% discount they're giving to the end of November, I decided to put my decision off for a year by buying the Pro account. Not a huge expenditure, but it feels like my arm is being twisted and I do resent it. I will probably still end up dumping Flickr in the end, but at least not for a year now.
On the bright side, I've sold a number of photos via Flickr, and been fortunate enough to have some magazine covers as well as my photos in books, brochures, pamphlets, and so on - the money I've earned has not been very much, but sufficient to afford paying for the account. Flickr can be a very good place to have your photos found by others, the key is to use tagging efficiently.
I've been neglecting it, and my photography in general, for several years now, and my photostream has become nothing much more than a huge photo dump of veterans photos (my way of giving back to fellow vets), but perhaps I can get things cleaned up now that I'm motivated by having to pay to use it.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wigwam/