You can no longer purchase Adobe Photoshop!

It's actually pretty smart, and I think good for both sides. If you really use CS all the time as a tool you probably come out about the same with buying upgrades all the time. If you have a one-off project/need you can actually use it. Dunno. I don't think Adobe is that healthy, but I actually think subs is the future for software in general. Sometimes it's a bad deal for me, but it makes more sense to me than repeated upgrade cycles.

I usually use GIMP now, so this particular one doesn't really matter to me. I can't remember the last time I used Lightroom or any of the rest of CS.