[JJ_SO]

I don't understand what you are on about.

 

Adobe does not force anyone to buy their products on subscription or on those that are subscription-free. 

 

In fact, you went to them. 

 

They do not steal your files and you can still do basically everything in LR except for Develop (and I think Maps) if you were on a subscription and then decide to cancel.

 

So, you can still organise, retrieve, view, export and share. Heck, you can still even print. Forever and for free!

 

What more do you want?

 

Look, if you are serious about photography then whatever edits you have made are already near perfect. And presumably you have saved these out.

 

Now you go to a new program and do what you want to or need to do.

 

I just don't get what the problem is. 

 

 

No, I did not went to them. I went away from them at home and I use their products, when I'm paid to bother about them.

 

So far, I had not a single positive experience with their support. I see how widepsread Adobe's application demand space in a lot of surprising spaces in my OS, making it difficult to get rid of them - it was quite a procedure to get rid of that Flash crap.

 

They do not steal my pictures, because I never gave it tot them or others. But I see the risk, if the payments stop they lock in the pictures in their cloud, at least the ones one uploaded to it. Then it's a server in America, this brings up a big set of legal questions like others stealing your pictures because you didn't watermark them.

 

Anyway, long story short: My Mac stays Adobe free.