Well, of course, given your hypothetical in which I stop feeding my credit card to the Adobe Cash Cow, I will go looking for an alternative.
I’m not trying to defend Adobe. They are not perfect (especially if by perfect we mean they give away their software) and I have had issues with them from time to time over the years. And while I don’t see it as optimal, I don’t begrudge them their business model. The market will deal with it.
But given that I would prefer not to learn new software that is duplicative of what I already use in a cost-effective manner, I don’t really see the problem for me. Learning new software, that may or may not work as well as what I am using now is a time-consuming and expensive proposition.
As I mentioned above, if I were only a casual user, I might not be using Adobe. but that is not the case.
“As I mentioned above, if I were only a casual user, I might not be using Adobe. but that is not the case.”
So, dog, what sniff do you have in this hunt? Chewing on whatever bone . . . or raw hide that passes for a bone?