Geez folks, Adobe isn't nefarious. They may not run their company to exactly fit your desires but they aren't out to ruin your day either.
When they launched CC they said it served two main purposes.
1) from a corporate standpoint it smoothes out revenue.
2) it allows them to release updates and bug fixes more frequently and quite likely at a lower cost than the previous release cycles
Adobe has also said that they have NO intention of doing away with perpetual licensing for Lr. That makes good business sense. If you think of Lr as a gateway product for some photographers to CC why would they kill that by eliminating the perpetual license?
If you don't want or need CC then stick with the perpetual license. Its just that simple.
Will this hold true forever and ever? Nothing is forever except taxes.
What will the future hold? Who knows that answer for sure? I'm think that life for many, including Adobe, would be easier if we all had blazing fast internet connections and all their products could run on their servers. I'm pretty sure this is how Google, Apple and Microsoft see things.