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Adobe's CC pricing is infuriating, unless you make good money to pay for the sub from its usage it's completely inaccessible to most people.
A (truly) affordable sub which allowed you to access the apps you needed without having to buy them all would probably become ubiquitous, adobe has always made it worth the effort to pirate their software, how many of those people would take the convenience and reduced risk and just sign up if it was something you could ignore when it came out of the account each month like netflix etc...
I was recently read a quote from someone who works at Adobe and the gist of it was they know they have probably the most pirated software ever, the subscription is a shameless way to try and claw back some of the cash.