I get it, but when it comes to Photoshop, you buy it and then can use that one version of the software for 10 years if you don't care about all of the upgrades, which aren't necessary, or you can pay ten years worth of monthly subscription fees.
The subscription is massively more expensive.
Buying a product and then buying a replacement at some point in the future is massively preferred to me over paying every month for that product. It allows me to budget and update when I want to depending on what features are released that I need or want or to replace the item when it wears out a subscription generally costs more and robs me of any flexibility.
Production quality and innovation is also better without subscriptions. Businesses have to win me over with there new product or version and convince me it's worth paying to upgrade, if i'm already on a subscription, they don't really care as long as there are competitive to alternatives.
Interesting you chose Photoshop: I've stayed on my older version of Lightroom because Adobe moved to a subscription based model and I just don't use it enough to justify that. They're clearly addicted to that revenue stream over their former model.
This isn't how Photoshop works anymore sadly. Now it's all under "Creative Cloud" subscription so you pay monthly/yearly, and if you stop paying you lose access. For a while it was common for users to keep the last "purchased" version (called CS6) but it's been so long I see this less and less.
I fully agree tho when you stop subscribing you should be able to keep the previous version. It's a tool, not entertainment like Netflix/Spotify.
The subscription is massively more expensive.
Buying a product and then buying a replacement at some point in the future is massively preferred to me over paying every month for that product. It allows me to budget and update when I want to depending on what features are released that I need or want or to replace the item when it wears out a subscription generally costs more and robs me of any flexibility.
Production quality and innovation is also better without subscriptions. Businesses have to win me over with there new product or version and convince me it's worth paying to upgrade, if i'm already on a subscription, they don't really care as long as there are competitive to alternatives.