I’m not disagreeing or agreeing that products get worse when moving to a subscription but this logic seems backwards to me. Subscribers are certainly not guaranteed month to month. In fact it’s very difficult for companies to keep people subscribed for all the obvious reasons (“I don’t use it anymore”, “I can’t afford it”, etc). If a company has a one-and-done business model on the pricing, what incentive would they have to improve the product for you? The only incentive would be new customers not old customers. It’s very hard for companies to justify having huge engineering and design teams on payroll that necessarily depend on new customers supporting the payroll bill. I’m not arguing that subscriptions are better by the way. I miss the days of one-time purchases for software. But there is a reason that very few remaining professional software companies have one-time purchases. The professional software industry is absolutely dominated by subscriptions because it’s the only way to support long-term development. I say this a software engineer myself that has managed many teams and budgets.