Does anybody else have the feeling that adobe’s switch to subscription only is unethical?

Subscriptions seem reasonable for consuming of content like movie and music services, for example.

However, creative tools that people spend years to learn, and put their hard work into creating content are completely locked out of accessing the work and abilities unless they pay the endless subscription fee. This feels a bit like a digital slavery.

Don’t get me wrong, this doesn’t mean I think developers shouldn’t get paid for their hard work. There were plenty of other ways companies could get paid with continued maintenance upgrade and the sort.

Perhaps these companies have lost confidence in themselves that they’ll continue to produce features that would excite users to want to upgrade. Software development has slowed down greatly at almost all companies that have gone subscription only.

They’ve turned their users into a bunch of resentful slaves who have taken away much for the joy of casually using an application.

It wasn’t surprising to see that the CEO is also a WEF member.

At anytime a developer can pull the rug from under the users feet and change their terms of service. Makes me nervous about spending anytime learning an application just to become a slave to it later.

I believe we as a society should say no to such practices. No to slaveware and yes to freedomware such as open source tools.

What are you thoughts about this subject?