Honestly, I've seen many times that the Bitcointalk community is seen as overly critical and possibly aggressive towards new services. I believe that this is one of the reasons why some new projects do not appear here, they do not want to go through harsh criticism at the very beginning.
To be fair, the large majority of all new "services" that post here, are created by scammers. The few truely innovative new services I've seen usually get a warm welcome, and even better: they welcome criticism.
Just imagine how much hard work the Ledger Wallet representative here would have to defend all the bad decisions they made in the last year alone. It's clear that they don't need that, it would just make them look even worse.
You bring up a good example of what not to do. If they'd show up here, they'd deserve to get a very hard time. They sold out their core principles to turn their product into a subscription model. I'd be more concerned if Bitcointalk users would suddenly turn 180 degrees and start defending them to get paid.