That's just not true (that you have no choice). You can stick with your present CS6 or earlier until the cows come home. For new camera support you can use the free DNG converter if nothing else. You can pay the $10 a month for a subscription and see what happens in the year to come before renewal comes around. Or you can switch trains - the choice is up to you. If you think Adobe is presenting you with an onerous burden, Microsoft's release of the traditionally licensed version of Office 2013 was only authorized for 1 PC - no more installing to your desktop plus a laptop - and was permanently locked to the first machine you installed it on - retire that machine and upgrade to a new one, there was no uninstalling and moving the Office copy to the new computer, you had to buy a whole new full-price copy of Office for the new one and essentially trashcan the first one! Still is that way if you get a PC with Office pre-installed by the manufacturer; the OEM version is not transferable to a new computer. I have misgivings about the subscription model myself but some of you guys are really going to extremes in your vitriol.
So your defense of Adobe is by pointing out that there was a worse case in recent history? When my children tried to pull that crap for questionable behavior by pointing their finger at a sibling or friends who did even worse ... do you think that method earned them a reprieve for their actions? Poor decision making shouldn't be overlooked purely because someone else made a worse decision. We should never have to settle for the lesser of two evils.
I don't see the vitriol you mention in the Bernard's quote ... Adobe has indeed issued an end of life for Ps perpetual licensing. Plus, we all know, though we can use our current versions for some time ... that time period is not infinite ... especially at the current pace of OS and hardware advancement.
Adobe has stated (and Jeff has verified) that they dropped traditional perpetual license support because it became too difficult, troublesome and costly to provide while at the same time offering the CC model ... I don't doubt that to be the case ... though the resulting injuries they endured supporting both models before making the decision to drop perpetual licensing and further development of that model were self inflicted.
Adobe wasn't forced by market conditions or confining outside regulations to adopt the CC model ... it was Adobe's own concept because it stacked the deck in their favor. No government or other oversight entity forced them into a situation where they had no other option but to end perpetual licensing in order to survive ... knowing that, yes, a significant number of users are going to be upset.