Among the most significant changes with this year’s Elements releases has little to do with new features but instead concerns the ways users purchase and own the software. While prior versions of Photoshop and Premiere Elements have been lifetime licenses — the user buys the software and then owns it indefinitely — this year’s release has moved to a three-year license term.
You can understand them being eager to come back in the enshittification race, it’s their thing. When you’ve been the enshittification whiz kid, but somehow dropped down behind the competition, you might just want to come back and reclaim your #1 mug at some point.
I say, nice move, fuckers.