No. Left the LR/PS ship in 2016 itself, the moment Adobe went on to subscription model.
As a hobby photographer, it did not make any practical sense to me and personally, not having to chose between a subscription vs perpetual license, albeit with limited feature set to that point in time was a slap on my face.
Coming to what I feel about Adobe? Its just like a mob boss, to whom it's customers are paying a monthly fee. If you ask somebody who have their skin in the game with Adobe and making livelihood of photography, they may think otherwise and that is perfectly fine.
Let me give a couple of non-photography related examples. BMW started heated seats as subscription a couple years ago. Lexus started charging subscription on GPS services after an initial period. None of those were the "norm" when it came to cars in the past and if that is not fair, so is not proving a choice to customers between subscription and perpetual license models.
I can't wait to see when Adobe starts charging based on how much data transferred between your local machine and their cloud server in future (not talking about the cloud storage for which they are already charging). Pardon my ignorance, if they are already doing that as well.
Sreedhar
Jul 07, 2026 at 09:56 AM
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