<i>Anybody who fears being unable to pay a $20 monthly bill is very unlikely to have paid $200 up front for the tool in the first place.</i><p>I avoid subscription software not because of the price, but because if I stop paying or the company goes out of business the software stops working.  Say I completely change industries, then ten years later I want to go back and look at my old projects.  If I was using a subscription (IDE|audio editor|DAW|video editor), I won&#x27;t be able to preserve my historic work.