The guy who apparently got Adobe to switch to subscriptions was on the Hacker News cofounder matching, claiming that as one of his big accomplishments. I almost wanted to try and match with him just to impart the magnitude of the pain that decision had caused in the user community, and how it ultimately has opened the door for photoshop competitors even if it has juiced short term profits. Definitely a short sighted business move that is going to eventually end Adobe's market dominance.
As far as I know, Jetbrains, HashiCorp, SublimeText etc. has not yet gone bankrupt.
When a product(or service) generate real value, people will happily hand over their money. The only people having issues with giving away something free are mostly generating negative value overall in my experience, hence they need dark patterns.
What? What you replied to had nothing to do with ‘not paying,’ or ‘getting things for free,’ it only discussed their dislike for the subscription model.
