My concern isn’t over the current price. The larger investment is my time. If I spend hours and hours learning software and creating things with that software,

My concern isn’t over the current price. The larger investment is my time. If I spend hours and hours learning software and creating things with that software, I don’t want to risk it being crippled or the price being raised exorbitantly. I would rather use open source software or pay for software with a reasonable licensing model (and ideally from a company without a history of consumer-hostile practices).