Not quite. I am using their storage and I don't want to particiapte in a "community". The pictures in my albums don't bear much comparison with work that more able photgraphers than me can produce, but I'm selective about the pictures that I publish and spend time working on them in Lightroom. I'm not stuffing Flickr with cat photos like some social feed.

tldr is that I may not be the kind of user that they want or can support for free, but I think my use of the site is valid and I'm happy to pay to continue using it that way.