Or the subscription made LR more accessible to people lol, no. The Lightroom CC is the mobile/desktop product. That is and always has been a separate "more a

Or the subscription made LR more accessible to people lol, no. The Lightroom CC is the mobile/desktop product. That is and always has been a separate "more accessible" product. Moving Lightroom "Classic" (the desktop only product) to a rental only model simply makes profits more accessible to Adobe. That may not matter to you, but that is the market now. Of course it's the market now, there's no other option from Adobe.