I am not the one, who should dictate (business) strategy to Evernote. I came to express my wish (as a premium user, registered for more than 10 years). I have understood the fact, that some type of AI search functionality will be premium functionality paid by extra fee and I am willing to do that. I provided you an example of a service, which has its own business model and its not connected with Evernote at all just to demonstrate, how helpful it can be. The price calculation should be surely different for Evernote, just simply multiply the price per PDF page is not a very clever price comparison (when it comes to thinking 😉 ).
I still feel, that Evernote is becoming a "boomer" in the area of this types of applications, and it is a pity. To think about things that it is not possible, because.. just as a reaction to everything new... , well ok, let's continue in polishing the "Dashboard" - the really 90's thing.