One perk to subscriptions is, it's way cheaper to walk away early on. Companies love consistent recurring income, so subscriptions are probably here to stay. Gotten used to Rasterlink here, and it does what I need it to do. Then again, I also use Paint.net for 95% of my graphics work too and the rest is Photopea (great site, emulates Photoshop in the browser for free) for when people send me Adobe files.