Re: contact sales, I totally hear what you're saying. It's not always a bad idea to talk to a sales person, and a good one can steer you towards the options you'd actually want. But yeah, I generally don't want to talk to a salesperson either.
Yes, but would it kill them to just put a pricing there?
Nowadays you can get the list price of sending a Rocket into space[1] but not how much some software is going to cost you