Staff
You are correct - this is how it works. Designers have org creation rights and because they are then owners they can invite other users to be designers there, thus consuming a designer license seat from your total.
https://support.smartbear.com/swaggerhub/docs/organizations/working-with/permissions.html
Please let your account manager know if you would like a product suggestion or enhancement to change this behavior and we can look into it.
If you'd like to know where your licenses are going you can use scripts and our registry API to figure that out (or let your account manager know you'd like a 1:1 session with a sales engineer and we can help you get going, just mention my comment)
