It's all well and good to pretend that Adobe transitioning to a subscription-based model was to give more people easier access to their products, something I ne

It's all well and good to pretend that Adobe transitioning to a subscription-based model was to give more people easier access to their products, something I never truly believed to begin with, but it gets really hard to take that claim even remotely seriously when Adobe turns around and completely dismantles it by trying to trap people in this way. You just cannot argue that they're making it accessible when they're trying to trap people into paying the amount they were trying to avoid (or couldn't afford) in the first place. It's corporate rent-seeking and that's pretty much all it will ever be.