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The only other brands really worth discussing are Wahoo and Polar. I've never really looked into them to know in great detail.
Tbh without having seen exactly what's going on at Garmin so far, I'd probably still be inclined to go with them, in spite of this. I'd be asking myself: if they didn't have this subscription offering, and the features behind the subscription price simply didn't exist, would I still stick with Garmin? The subscription itself is, for the moment, entirely a neutral factor for me.
The only risk is that in 5 years all the newer features are locked behind the subscription. But Garmin has always been stingy with software updates to give new features, so this doesn't really affect that.