[boringg]

Do you think the guilt (was there even any guilt) of having pirated it for many years also made you guy in? I ask as a function of a business strategy they could have let people ride for free until at a certain point they might feel some kind of obligation. I doubt that was ever part of anyones strategy but in hindsight is kind of interesting to riff on.

[mywittyname]

Non-business users will absolutely continue to pirate for as long as possible. Adobe products are basically unpiratable at this point, and the $20/mo subscription service is expensive, but reasonably affordable compared to the $600 or whatever the boxed software ran all those years ago.