Purchasing Adobe Creative Suite - The Cloud?

Adobe Lightroom 6 is still sold by Adobe on a perpetual License base (Current version is 6.6). Other software needs to be acquired on a pay/month basis.

In the consumer product range, you find Premiere and Photoshop Elements still on a perpetual license if my information are correct.

There are alternatives like Gimp or InkScape. They are great products, but do not work at the same professionalism then Photoshop and Illustrator.

And there are commercial products out, like Corel Draw.

I worked with Corel Draw years ago and dropped it in favour of the Adobe products, because the professional prepress world works with Adobe products. Exchange is more reliable.

Your choice!

You are correct as far as "CURRENT" version is concerned.  There are some stores still selling Photoshop CS6 that is perpetual and you only pay once and use it forever.

The other alternative is to buy Photoshop Elements 14 and that too is perpetual - i.e. pay once and continue using it until you get fed up of it.

Hope this helps.