I do, and I'm not a professional photographer/artist by any measure. I pay for the "photography bundle", which is Lightroom + Photoshop + some cloud storage (w

I do, and I'm not a professional photographer/artist by any measure. I pay for the "photography bundle", which is Lightroom + Photoshop + some cloud storage (which I don't use). Before the subscription-based model, these two would cost some 8-900 euros. At 12 € a month and 800 € for the bundle, that's 66 months to break even, or 5.5 years. Sure, you could use the same version for 20 years if you wanted. It probably works on Windows, but probably not on the mac, what with the CPU architectures changing. And there have been improvements that I, as an amateur photographer, am happy to have. For example the new automatic selection that landed a year or two ago in Photoshop. Could the same be achieved by a skilled professional with the path tool? Probably, and maybe even better. But I'm not that professional, and I don't want to sink hours and hours into this. To me that's actually a pretty good deal. Now, you could argue that the product isn't worth it because X is better. But that's a totally different argument.