I hate it but you arguably couldn't use them for life unless you wanted to run some old version of the OS they came out on in a VM. OSes change, the deprecate a

I hate it but you arguably couldn't use them for life unless you wanted to run some old version of the OS they came out on in a VM. OSes change, the deprecate and remove old features. You can't run Photoshop CS6 (the last non SaaS version) on Catalina. In the past I got by on 1 upgrade every 4 years or about $50 a year. Now it's $120 a year. Before the incentives were aligned. Add new amazing features or I'm not upgrading. Now the incentives are not aligned. The more money they spend on dev the less money they make. The are 100s of features I see on cheap or free iOS image editing apps I'd have expected to see long ago in Photoshop or Lightroom but Adobe no longer has any incentive to add features. As just one example, the features of the Focos app. Being able to create an AI generated depth mask would be extremely useful in Photoshop. I'm sure you can make excuses why this isn't a valid data point but look at Wikipedia's Photoshop feature list by version. Notice how before SaaS each version shows about 4-5 paragraphs of new features, after SaaS each version is just a single paragraph of mostly minor re-workings of existing features https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop#Version_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop#Version_histor...