I think subscription pricing makes sense. Yes it is taxing you perpetually but it could also create an equilibrium where a publisher gets paid by happy customer

I think subscription pricing makes sense. Yes it is taxing you perpetually but it could also create an equilibrium where a publisher gets paid by happy customers for keeping everything up to date while not having to constantly create BS features and waste resources by marketing these new versions. Adobe would be a good example of adding ever more dilutive features while breaking compatibility for existing versions to urge users every year to upgrade products they might actually be fine with. I think this dogma of growth is dangerous as it can only go so far. Our whole economy relies on the notion of growth but I never quite understood why everything would either have to grow or die. In nature things grow to some extend and then try to form a self sustaining ecosystem that would basically go forever. Ironically the things that grow most aggressively in nature are the things we consider toxic. Things like viruses, cancers and weeds.