Good you identified this as an "emotional rant", as those are not likely to be balanced commentary and this one is no exception.
If you're going to rant, why not also rant about the new features they've introduced since the subscription program started and have proven themselves to be very useful. I'm thinking particularly of the new "Upright" feature, which I happen to think is brilliant, but there are others, as well improvements under the hood to existing tools. Yes, there have been several episodes of significant "glitches", which the company fixed, some faster than others; but as many have pointed out, without making excuses for any particular company, these products are very complex and errors can happen; as well new design concepts can be introduced with all good intentions, but fail with the clients. At least they do listen and sooner or later things get fixed. It's not all bad, so let's not get swept away. I really think it's worthwhile considering the pricing issue on its own merits, and just accept that on the whole these applications are very powerful and very good, some periodic technical issues notwithstanding.