Netgear armor expensive. Is it worth it?

I really dont think it's worth it. 

I might just be very cynical person but I feel like this is an unecessary moneygrab. It's basically a way for the company to "update" all existing netgear routers with this so-called netgear armor service. it's an excuse for netgear to provide you less quality service.  ever since i did not renew netgear armor after the 90 day trial, I have noticed the strangest thing.  This has never happened before, ever. I am a university student in a seperate state from my wife, who lives on the west coase where I leave all of my toys (including my netgear router).  From time to time i have to remotely access all of my devices and netgear offers this particular service the netgear nighthawk app. for many years nearly 5 years I have been able to remote into my router without a hitch, but now, i have to ask my wife and explain to her on a periodic basis how to power down the router manually because netgear has basically blocked me from my own hardware. I am adamently certain that this is the case since I never had this problem until netgear rolled out their new firmware "update" which included the netgear armor "service". 

basically netgear like every other company is trying to play in my insecurities and grab the money out of my wallet for absolutley no reason! netgear armor is basically open dns. it's nothing.  but they make it something by tinkering with your own hardware and basically try to manipulate you to buy more sh1t.