50% increase...

As we expected, monopoly leads to price gauging.  So nobody should be surprised about the 50% increase of the basic photography plan.  Even that basic plan is a bundle, including a score of stuff which I do not use and do not want.  I only use Lightroom Classic.

But wait: there is more: Now in all the haste and hurry we have to add a cost of a new computer to the fold, because silently in a Night and Fog action Adobe introduced a module using AVX2 instruction set, and that's that. This move will potentially cause a pile up of hundreds of thousands of working computers in a land fill.  I suppose its an action benefitting hardware manufacturers.  Compares to Microsoft's requirement for TPM2 (Trusted Platform Module 2) for W11, what also forces many people to purchase a new hardware.

Of course we have recourse. Maybe an action law suit will be filed, but even that will leave Adobe cold.