Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?

This is especially annoying given I generally refuse to rent anything in life, and will go out of my way to buy something upfront simply so there's no risk of losing it if finances get worse in future (or the wrong billionaire buys the company). Yet it seems like it's getting harder to do so, especially when open source products don't exist for that domain.

So yeah, why is that? And is anyone else tired of the constant barrage of subscriptions for things that should be one off purchases?

I felt like it was a mistake to get a Plex Pass that I paid for once because Plex had my money and didn't have to listen to me with product direction and Plex got worse and worse at serving media from my local server while it became increasingly focused on showing me ads for off-brand streaming services.

I think the subscription model actually works for Adobe in that the upfront price of creative cloud was astronomical and breaking that up to a monthly payment puts the product in reach of people at basically the same pricing.

Subscriptions for video games like the Xbox GAME PASS irk me. It's hard to make a case that they aren't a good value, but I think it's a movie that we saw with cable television and it doesn't end well. If I can't reward game companies by buying their games, I feel like I don't have any input into what games get made.