Photoshop free trial expired after 1 day

This is so irritating. I just had the same thing happen to me, and this answer, while surely helpful for many situations, is entirely non-helpful for mine. I downloaded a trial of Illustrator on Saturday, and used it on Saturday. I tried to open it again today, Monday (that's two days later), and it now tells me that my trial has expired. None of the causes in that article apply to my situation. There is no question about when it was downloaded and installed. What is particularly frustrating is that this forum is the only support option available to me as Illustrator is not in my paid plan. Brilliant.

I abhor Creative Cloud licensing (I have spent many thousands on Adobe products since 1996; I used to own Illustrator, but that has been stripped from me under this new business model (without support for previous versions under modern operating systems). I am increasingly hating Adobe as a direct result, and wanting any and all competitors to succeed brilliantly and strip market share from Adobe on a daily basis.

I needed Illustrator for ONE project this week, and don't anticipate needing it again for months. I realized that the trial period would be sufficient for this project. The trial expired after two days and now I am left high and dry, forced to either abandon the work I've already done or pay a ridiculous sum for a very brief period of use. The CC model may work great for full-time creative professionals who use many applications on a daily basis and benefit from the always-up-to-date feature, but for those of us who use the software (except the Photography plan products, in my case) only occasionally and would be fine with the set of features we had several years ago, it is a slap in the face after literally decades of loyal use and purchasing.