[timeon]

This was exactly my case especially with the Adobe. Then my MBP died just few days before deadline. So I got new one with M1 chip. And I had to go with Adobe subscription. Not only it was bloatware it was also buggy. Then Affinity had sale and I bought three Affinity apps for the price of three months with Adobe. Affinity Designer is better for my needs then combination of Photoshop/Illustrator. However Adobe Indesign is still much better then Affinity publisher. I could live with that but there is not good compatibility between Indesign and Publisher (unlike Affinity Designer where you can easily import/export .psd). But I will have to find workaround not because subscription sucks (I do not use Indesign daily but still almost every month). It sucks because Creative Cloud is bloatware.

[ungamed]

The subscription still sucks.

[ChuckNorris89]

Welcome to the world of big-tech commercial software. You either pay a subscription fee in money or your private information for ad targeting. Sometimes even both.

[ungamed]

Not all big-tech commercial software is like this, but maybe I'm not a regular user.

[sneak]

There is a third option:

keygen + little snitch blocking