Obviously, it is. You're an Adobe apologist so you refuse to acknowledge that fact.
You're about the last person who has a clue about facts bud.
So let's all see if we can understand your rants. And this confusion vortex Adobe set out. Let's use the OP as a case study since he wrote:
Adobe appear to apply more pressure to subscribe!
Fact: the OP understands there is some difference between LR6 perpetual and LRCC or he wouldn't have asked the question he did. So unlike some, he's not living under a rock, he is aware there are two purchasing possibilities.
We are to believe he and others go to Adobe and without doing a lick of research about the differences in the to possibilities, he just buys LR 6 perpetual. Then he finds out, without any further pre or post purchase research that CC customers get new functionality because they subscribe (the subscription carrot, no question) but he doesn't. Because of this, he asks if Adobe is applying pressure to subscribe. Damn straight they are! It's an ADVANTAGE provided for subscribers. Try connecting the dots.
As pointed out, traditionally since LR was a product, major new features appeared at major releases cycles (LR1 to LR2, LR2 to LR3 etc). Not within dot releases. So we so called Adobe apologist (I'd say realists) knew that if we wanted new features, we paid to upgrade the next major version. Stop me if this is news to you bud.
And the OP will have that opportunity to upgrade to new features as well. When LR7 perpetual ships in maybe two years, he can pay again for an upgrade and have all the features the subscribers got months and years earlier.
These are facts!
We Adobe realists are supposed to believe that someone with a credit card burning a hole in their pocket is unaware of this despite the text being presented to them on the Adobe site when they go to buy the product. We're supposed to believe that any purchase of anything bears no responsibly on our actions, if we're not clear on what we are buying, it's the fault of the company. I don't know what odd flat earth planet you live on, but where I come from, people who buy products have to take a little responsibly for their actions, they don't make up trolling posts such as linking a company as unethical and misleading because they didn't RTMF or the specifics of what they are purchasing. Stupid people mislead themselves by their own doing and then love to blame their stupidity on some big company. Got a mirror? I'm not buying into that nonsense and neither are some others here.
BTW, I thought you were leaving.
