Yes. Handing control of my life to 3rd parties has almost always resulted in me getting screwed. Product pricing changes, companies shut down, features removed,

Yes. Handing control of my life to 3rd parties has almost always resulted in me getting screwed. Product pricing changes, companies shut down, features removed, etc. If I spend my money on something, I want to enjoy as permanent of an upgrade to my quality of life as possible. I don't want to constantly have to balance an ever-growing list of subscriptions, either. For example, I used Fusion 360 for a few years under their hobbyist license. Then they started pulling the rug out: limited number of projects allowed, then they disabled local simulation features (forcing you to use paid cloud tokens, even though my local computer was often faster to run the simulation). I won't begrudge them asking for money. I did, however, realize that they can change the deal anytime they want, and thus my built up skills were at the mercy of Autodesk. So I dropped Fusion and learned FreeCAD (of which I am a paying supporter), OpenSCAD, and other open source tools. Those are much less polished, but I can all but guarantee that I'll be able to use those products until I'm past any need for software.