Then most people wouldn't be purchasing name-brand AAA software and would likely settle for FOSS or indie apps. Even better, you wouldn't be expected to be usin

Then most people wouldn't be purchasing name-brand AAA software and would likely settle for FOSS or indie apps. Even better, you wouldn't be expected to be using said commercial solutions. Subscriptions incentivize selling programs that are in a perpetual unfinished state. We lost the opportunity to call a project "feature-complete". LZMA2, H264, and RSA/AES were developed years ago, yet 7zip, netflix, and ssh still need regular updates for some nonsensical reason.