I can understand this with Adobe though. The Suite used to be £1,500
With my sub model of £31/m it works out to cost me just over £300 annually.
Since it used to update often, with costs, this makes sense to me.
Not to mention the storage thrown into the package and tutorials thare supported and updated by the company themselves.
As someone who has a career alongside music, I have no issues with subs. I have PA sub, EastWest and Adobe.
After University I made a decision that unless, I was going to work in games music or trailer music libraries, I was not going to have this as a primary source of income. The Industry is exciting, but also highly uncertain. Fortunately I was advised to go into IT and have music as a passion that I hold to going forward.