> 600 USD per year is expensive

No. Its not.

With the greatest of respect, have you ever run a business?

I could list many reasons why 600USD is cheap, but I'll leave it with the easiest one to understand, the old adage "time is money".

       1. How much are you paying those video editors using the Adobe suite that you're paying 600 USD each a year for ?
       2. How many projects are those video editors working on ?
       3. What is the profit margin on those projects ?

I would suggest the typical answer to the above is "a lot", "a lot", "thin enough so that they need to complete a reasonable amount of projects to remain profitable".

As for $other_reasons, let's see .... IT equipment, Video/Lighting Equipment, office space, cost of customer acquisition (vs keeping them happy via prompt completion on time) .... the list goes on. The 600USD will be at the lower-end of all the other expenses.

600USD a year is cheap compared to what it is saving your business in time and money, and the efficiencies it brings.

Sure, it's cheap for a business, but very expensive for an individual.

Resolve is a $295 one-time purchase and includes many of the features of the Adobe suite though, so I think in a relative sense, Adobe is expensive.

The $600 also includes the entire Creative Cloud suite.

True. But DaVinci Resolve only crashed on me once in 6 months. Just sayin'

> True. But DaVinci Resolve only crashed on me once in 6 months. Just sayin'

FUD Alert ! FUD alert !

I know lots of people working extensively with Premiere. Not one of them has complained of crashing.

Premiere has quite a bad reputation at crashes. After a bad reputation as being slow. Audition, Photoshop, Illustrator etc. not so much crashes or slowness

True, I only know a few, so very possible it's just anecdotal.