Moving to a subscription model for 1 thing is okay, perhaps 2, or even 3. But with <i>every</i> company gradually moving to subscription models, it is emptying out our wallets every month and removing more and more of our income to maintain the status quo.<p>From my own perspective, and I know this doesn&#x27;t apply to all, but I cannot imagine I&#x27;m the only person with this viewpoint:<p>I&#x27;m sick of other developers saying things like: &quot;You know what? For the amount developers earn, $X is a small price to pay.&quot; You&#x27;re right, $X for a single piece of software is a small price. But when you add the cost of your MSDN license here, your JetBrains license there, your Xamarin university&#x2F;license, O&#x27;Reilly Safari License, PluralSight license and countless other licenses and software purchases to do our jobs - <i>all</i> of which are gradually moving towards month-by-month subscription models with excessively large combined annual overheads, it cuts more and more into your budget... and not to forget that the income you make doesn&#x27;t <i>just</i> pay for an ever revolving cycle of tools to maintain your competitiveness as these arguments seem to forget [unless you&#x27;re still living in Mom&#x27;s basement and all your income is expendable or can feed the endless software-as-a-service lifestyle]. It&#x27;s also used to ensure that your kids get a good education so they can make their own valuable contributions to society; that you&#x27;re able to live comfortably and not worry about where your next meal is coming from; that your family is safe and secure and well prepared for the unexpected; medical plans; retirement plans; mortgage; vehicle payments; the list goes on... <i>all</i> of which costs money - every month!<p>I&#x27;m growing tired of companies feeling like they can reach into my pocket month after month and take every spare penny for &quot;services rendered.&quot; At what point will people turn around and say &quot;Enough&#x27;s enough! My money is mine!&quot; I&#x27;m happy to buy products when they move me forward, but I hate paying monthly subscriptions on the off chance that you&#x27;re going to continue provide updates that may or may not benefit me in the longer term.<p>As a company providing software, I&#x27;m not purchasing you as a service. I&#x27;m purchasing your product. When I work for a company that pays me every month, I&#x27;m selling myself to them as a service - to do their bidding and write the code they want. If I&#x27;m to pay for you as a service, then the money I&#x27;m paying you had better be providing what <i>I</i> need to do my job more effectively, just like if I pay a cleaner to come clean the house, I&#x27;m not paying for them to develop makeup products that benefit their other clients while I don&#x27;t wear makeup. I want the option of buying the product that <i>does</i> help me do my job more effectively and then I&#x27;ll hold on to the rest of my money and allocate it where that is the case.