I generally find subscription requirements and similar tactics to be really frustrating, but for some reason it’s never felt that way with Adobe to me. I think

I generally find subscription requirements and similar tactics to be really frustrating, but for some reason it’s never felt that way with Adobe to me. I think there’s something just sort of staggeringly impressive about the amount of detail and complexity in even one of the Creative Suite applications compared to the price of the whole collection. Like paying $60 a month or so, which even if you get stuck is well under a thousand bucks a year, for all the development work that goes into dozens of specialized media editing solutions, which they keep super updated, seems kind of fair. I’m comparing it, for example, to the misery of having to pay $10k+ a year for the steaming pile of garbage user experience of Salesforce, for example. Or $30 a month for like a hot new email client like Superhuman. Adobe pricing has always struck me as profoundly fair in this context. That’s a seriously impressive software achievement.