Lifetime licenses rarely last a lifetime. Most products will run out of support long before you run out of life. You'd be lucky if the company even existed afte

Lifetime licenses rarely last a lifetime. Most products will run out of support long before you run out of life. You'd be lucky if the company even existed after 10 years. Before subscription software became all the rage, you had to purchase a license for a specific version. You had the right to keep using the version you purchased for as long as it worked, but if you wanted any new features, you had to shell out money again for a new version every few years. Maybe you'd get free bugfixes from time to time, but that was about it. Now we're all spoiled by the rolling updates funded by the subscription model. We keep asking for the old pricing model, and at the same time want all the new features to be backported perpetually. :)