Read through pretty much all the threads I think and am a little surprised about how much negativity there is about Adobe Creative cloud. Now I am not saying I am a great photographer but I do like to try and do some creative work like those in my " Photo Fun Hump day " shots and for me the work flow is LR CC and PS CC. I remember maybe 6 yrs back I purchased the latest version of PSE and suffered continuous frustrations at the time as it didnt support layers for non destructive editing along with a very poor cataloging tool. I believe I paid something like $157 for it at the time. LR I purchased outright also before subscription came along.
Now - being an early subscriber I got in on the beta buy discount which has gone up maybe $3 since the start of subscription offering so I have been with them for some time. I still pay $12 give or take a few cents for my LR CC and PS CC subscription. For that I get the latest software and version updates along with new features added of both LR CC and PS CC.
So in view of yearly cost I am up around $150 AU a yrs which is still less than what I paid for LR and less than what PSE cost me. In fact looking at the thread, at least two of the other products come in only maybe $50 less without free upgrades for new RAW version etc.
So, I dont see warrant in bagging out Adobe for what is - IMHO - and seems a very large Global community of photographers also is an unjust cost for what is a fantastic product.
However, I get it. I do seem the point here in as much as PS can be at times a bit of a learning curve and there maybe many features not for ones using it but to say it is in-superior to many other products and over costly I think is yanking the chain a bit.
So sure - everyone to their own and sure if you find a product suites you better that makes perfect sense to me and a legit argument - however, I cant say I am in line with the Adobe big bad monster theme here :-)
It does sound a little like I have a Canon because Nikon blah blah discussion hear which I have never bother getting caught up in :-)
Happy days team.
Mike