They sold us convenience. We bought dependency.
"Just $49/month" sounded reasonable. Until you did the math. Until you realized you'd pay $30,000 over a decade for software that hasn't changed. Until you noticed the price hikes. The feature gating. The endless upsells.
Subscription software is designed to extract, not empower. Every quarter, they need to show growth. So they squeeze you harder. Add new tiers. Remove features from your plan. Make you upgrade to keep what you had.
There is another way. One payment. One download. Your software, forever.