You’re not alone. And imo the reason is, as always, money. Once developers/companies figured out that they could earn a lot more using subscriptions everything

You’re not alone. And imo the reason is, as always, money. Once developers/companies figured out that they could earn a lot more using subscriptions everything turned into a sub. Plenty of subscription, web based projects used to be standalone apps you were only paying for once. But this is the world we live in unfortunately.