I've never really seen a subscription program stagnate in practice. In fact I find that subscriptions allow companies to detach revenue from feature planning and deliver useful features rather than shiny new UIs.

If revenue is not attached to feature planning, how are users going to influence what features get developed?

Evernote, all they did for several years was scrambling the UI.

You and I must be using completely disjoint set of subscription software, because I can't think of any that ended up delivering useful features and improvements, instead of cutting out and dumbing down the functionality, while endlessly messing with the UI.

That's a big reason people want sta ility of "buy once": to protect the tool they use now from becoming worse over time.

Of course it's subjective but my feeling is Photoshop hasn't added anything of significance since they went subscription. The majority of new features have been cloud intergration (something not even many of Adobe's employees want) and UI tweaks

They're even removing features

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/3d-faq.html#discontinue...

>Plus: Keep it working on new OS versions //

People are running pre-subscription Adobe products, for example, ... what specific software is suddenly breaking with OS changes?

IIRC CS6 was the last non-subscription version. It's installer is 32bit but MacOS no longer runs 32bit executables. Maybe people find workarounds.

This kind of thing is especially true in iOS where every OS release kills off a bunch of software using deprecated and then deleted APIs.

It's likely in 2-3 years MacOS will pull out Intel support (like they pulled out PowerPC support after so many years when they switched to Intel)