Resume Builders still relevant?

Every developer I know has been through this at least once. You're updating your resume, maybe you're passively looking, maybe you just got laid off, and you Google "free resume builder." You pick one of the top results, spend 20 minutes filling in your work history, get a decent-looking preview going, and then hit download.
Paywall.
Not a subtle one either. We're talking $3/month, $29/month, subscription tiers, Pro plans. Some tools are sneakier about it. They let you download as a .txt for free, but charge you for the PDF. Others let you use the builder completely and only reveal the paywall at the very end, after you've already invested time you can't get back.
It's a dark pattern, and it's everywhere in this space.
The frustrating part is that none of this is technically hard. Generating a clean PDF from structured data is a solved problem. The reason these tools charge isn't because they have massive infrastructure costs. It's because they can. Job seekers are anxious and time-pressed, and that's a convenient moment to slip in a credit card field.
Let's talk about FpResume.com, and what actually got me wasn't just that it's free. It's the upload feature. You already have a resume, probably some messy Word doc or PDF you've been patching for three years. You upload it, the AI parses it and pulls all your information out, and then generates a perfect resume for you that is ATS-friendly and properly formatted. You review and edit everything before generating the final version. No retyping your entire work history from scratch. No copy-pasting section by section.
Once your data looks good, you pick between two templates, Executive or Classic, and download. Clean, professional, no surprises at the end.
That's the whole product. And honestly, that's all it needed to be.
Worth a look if you're job hunting or know someone who is.
Here is the link if you are interested in exploring it:
FpResume