Adobe Users In Particular, but not exclusively: Are you upset by the move to metered service on the cloud?

Adobe stopped selling all boxed or downloadable software for good last month. The only recourse is full-fledged top-dollar subscription to access the software on the cloud. Any miss in payments shuts you off and makes your own work inaccessible. Even a glitch in your ISP service will do this. If you are fed up with it and want a refund, they won’t give you back the full unused portion but have to pay 50% of the unused. If you stop payment, Adobe will charge a fee for non-processing of payment.

I was never someone who bought the top of the line every two years—couldn’t afford to. Instead I bought one version down [cheaper] and kept it 4 or 5 years. Cloud-only means I will be turning away from Adobe to open source programs with far fewer bells and whistles.

The move to the cloud was already halfway in place when they installed very stringent activation systems [that stop working if you are in safe mode or if your ISP has a problem and they can’t phone home].

I also notice that more and more vendors, even of less expensive programs, are limiting their licensing to one year and enforcing it with activation systems, instead of letting you buy the programs for life and then ignore invitations to upgrade.
For those on a [more or less] fixed income, a future of metered service is upsetting.

I first broached this issue in a related topic in 2011. http://www.fluther.com/136686/has-anyone-else-noticed-the-new-push-by-charities-to-even/

Am I the only one who hates all of this?