To me, the license scheme for ArcGIS Runtime SDK is a bad design, it will kill ARS, few users or developers would think a serious effort to do somethingn for prod when you have the license by deployment worry in mind.
It got to have an option to tie the license to the ArcGIS server for the web-enabled deployment, leave the standalone licensed by deployment only.
Otherwise, how soon it will die, it is only a matter of time.