Creative Cloud and Creative Suite

Adobe Creative Cloud- or CC- is a really nifty and clever way to package Adobe's programs into one big box, where you can take home everything, or pick and choose certain items according to your needs or interests. Before CC, though, there was Adobe Creative Suite- or CS. This method of selling Adobe's programs was not nearly as reliant on the internet and a cloud as CC. Particularly, however, it didn't cost a monthly fee to purchase (an) Adobe program(s). Now, with CC, you pay a monthly fee, about $19 for one program, and about $50 for the whole shebang. Once you start your subscription to CC, the program(s) you purchase update regularly, eliminating the need to purchase new software or come up with new names for it (e.g. CS5, CS6). Now, obviously, a lot of red flags were raised by Adobe switching to a monthly payment, versus a 'pay-once-in-a-while-when-Adobe-creates-a-new-CS' approach. But some research into pricing has yielded results that indicate the overall monthly payment price might be better than or relatively close to the amount you spend when buying the latest CS when it comes out. Although this is comfort enough for some, I still don't like one thing about the new monthly payment system: it's monthly. My father once wisely noted that "your goal in life is to avoid monthly payments" at all costs. (Pun intended). And although it may legitimately be cheaper to subscribe to CC, (you can also sign up for limited periods of time, and only pay during that time, evidently), there's still something that gets under my skin about monthly payments to CC. I think that instead of a monthly, paid subscription to CC, Adobe should also offer- or just switch to only offering- the 'pay-once-in-a-while-when-Adobe-creates-a-new-CS' option. For one, it isn't a monthly payment. For another, you aren't obligated to buy CS every time a new version comes out; instead you can wait until a few new versions come out and you feel a switch is necessary. But with CC, you are constantly getting the newest updates, which in it of itself is fine, except that you pay for it. Now, granted, if you go a while without updating your CS software, (going from CS2 to CS5), breaking into the new tools, methods, and shortcuts can be an issue, but mind you, we have the internet. And on the internet, sources for nabbing new skills abound everywhere. So there is a lot of good from using the CS approach, financially speaking. And that shouldn't only apply to penny-pinchers: financing the use of very expensive software is no small part of considering what programs to use for your job, school, or personal hobbies. I think that Adobe should make it a priority to create affordable, reasonable, professional, and not monthly subscription-based products. Adobe does create somewhat reasonable, and definitely professional products, but making those products, as updated, only available via a paid monthly subscription is not affordable, from certain standpoints. Again, I think it would be nice if Adobe offered the CS and CC products together, or some sort of mix of the two, which doesn't involve mandatory updates- which mean monthly payments. Adobe, you rock, but must you charge a monthly fee to keep people up to date?