Completely agree @Carssen_Damon1 . Portfolios are the only ‘Advanced’ feature I need and it’s just not possible to justify such a huge monthly cost as a single user. The main reason I needed portfolios was that the Asana architecture didn’t give me enough levels of projects, tasks and sub-tasks that I required. I found ClickUp and Fibery give you more levels of nesting so you can replicate what the portfolios feature does, both are a bit more complicated than Asana but you won’t be paying anything like $60/month.
There are actually a number of threads already discussing the inequalities faced by single users and the lack of clear advertising of the 2 seat requirement, so you’re not alone in this frustration:
Having said this Asana has limited the number of portfolios available on the Advanced plan so there are issues with them even for teams: