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>"That's surprisingly modest. 3-4 years of subscription approximately being equal to a license sounds reasonable."

To me it's not modest, because I don't plan to stop using the software after just 3-4 years.

I think the point is that after 3 to 4 years, a new version of the perpetual license version would be released and you would spend that amount to upgrade anyway. Of course you could choose no to upgrade, but that’s not always an option when support for new macOS versions are not available in the older version.

That business-centric and artificial way of "shedding skin" is sometimes the case. In my experience the move to a new software piece just to get a reason to drop previous licenses - e.g. "BigApp 2" - is thankfully still not the common rule.

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