I agree with your sentiment but something I can't get past is the need for security updates. Perhaps it says something awful about the way software has become

I agree with your sentiment but something I can't get past is the need for security updates. Perhaps it says something awful about the way software has become structured, but there are very few applications that are safe to keep using if they are never updated. As soon as you concede that the application has to continue being updated you also have to concede there has to be an ongoing cost model to support that. Not doing this has led us to routers that are the gateway to most people's homes running totally unpatched 8 year old versions of linux. What I do wish is that the bare minimum viable updates were separated out from the major application feature updates. I would be happy to pay $5 a year for many of the applications I own and perhaps that would be enough to just ensure that security fixes are delivered. But instead I have to buy the major new version which not only costs 20x as much but also totally rearranges the application UI etc. and sometimes even loses features I care about.