> This could be a copy-paste of rants I have written. I think marketing has ruined pretty much everything. Everything has a subscription now, and it's in the cloud.

Well, shrink-wrapped software only needed to be purchased once to have something, and it was amenable to piracy. It also didn't let companies collect, expropriate, and sell off your private data. Hell, once upon a time, people even wanted to take EULA provisions to court as illegitimate, since you couldn't use a product you'd already paid for if you didn't "agree" to a post-purchase "contract".

Something had to be done to make profits sustainable!