I didn’t say years, I said time to move on, essentially. If Apple discontinued FCPX today I have it resident on my computer until I choose to delete it. Actually, same with CS6. Neither came from a disk.
If I am using Creative Cloud, though, and Adobe goes under, or I run out of money to pay my ISP, or the internet goes down for 3 days just as it’s time to renew my monthly subscription and I can’t access my projects, I have a big problem.
The idea of a potential monthly hard cutoff of software I use to make my living seems both terrifying and unnecessarily risky when I have very viable alternatives.
Best,
John