[dontJudge]

Sure, server side software avoids update issues, piracy, and fits naturally in a subscription model (more $$$ over time). No argument there, but those are considerations for the seller, not the consumer (me).

As the consumer, I don't like server side software when running locally is a more natural fit.

Client side programs will work forever, even after you go out of business. As long as the system it runs on doesn't evolve out from under it.

It has a feeling a permanence. Of an heirloom. Not some ephemeral service. A feeling of ownership like a hammer in your hand.

It may not be as good for you, but if it's software I want, where running locally is the most natural fit, I will glady pay several hundred without blinking. If I really need it I'd pay a few grand without blinking.