We are not requiring that you pay for cloud recordings at all! You can opt into Cam Plus Lite at any price, including $0 to retain all of today’s cloud video features.
You also gain community-funded Person Detection when you opt in, which is a new feature, but there is no obligation to pay - we have a $0/mo option for those who aren’t in a place to contribute, and we’re asking you to pay what you think the Person Detection service is worth. 
The combination of this opt-in and the community fund are what have allowed us to make Person Detection available on a name-your-price basis. I want to stress this super hard though: You can opt in to continue to receive cloud storage and name basically any price, including $0. We hope that you can understand our data shows that Person Detection will tremendously improve the experience for those who use cloud video storage and want relevant notifications, and we hope that you consider contributing to help us make this happen, but paying is NOT a requirement.
I strongly recommend that anyone who is confused take a look at the full explanation and full context in our original announcement post. We tried to be a bit more concise with this explanation because we’ve been sending a lot of messaging out, and our apologies if we omitted context that you guys would have benefitted from.