Uh, no secret? that makes no sense. You're acting as if people that visit this website would expect to have access to work integrated in their trees removed from their access once they stop paying monthly. No. They'd expect to have access from Ancestry's and other's that they haven't integrated into their trees removed. It's as if you must pay a monthly fee to continue to view photos you've put up in your own house.
It's common sense that you don't pay to research completed work again and again but pay to do new research. Hint: that's not photos and record images you've already researched and integrated into your tree. Requiring a person to pay to access work they've done in the past and continue to make available to other paying customers is bad business and defies intelligent business practices because it encourages such non-subscribing users to privatize their trees.
It's a complaint I often here on the DNA forums: that people won't share their trees with them after a match is found. Well no wonder, to pay all that money to build a tree and all the money for the DNA testing and you the user has to jump through hoops of saving these image records offline to making them accessible?
Really.
And with that it's time to unsub from this thread. Ancestry makes a bad business decision and that's their prerogative. Competition is expanding.