Is this a push to “force” perpetual customers into a Creative Cloud subscription? Many will see it that way. The Photographer's Package is only $10 per month, so many photographers just work that into their cost of doing business, but hobbyist look at it as an extra unnecessary cost. However, if you didn’t need to update to every version and could hold off and skip a few versions then the subscription model wasn't something you were too happy with. You can read more about the Creative Cloud versions of Lightroom on their blog.

If you constantly did the upgrades between versions, Creative Cloud is a cheaper and better option, which many are happy with. Since I use multiple programs from Adobe, I have subscribed to Creative Cloud but I held off for a while and wasn’t one of the early adopters.

Many users are not happy with the new “rent-to-use” philosophy of subscribing and are looking to other photo processing software as alternatives. For many, it might as well be the end as this was the final nail in the coffin for them.

Lightroom 6.14