I agree with you in almost al you state but it still does not explain why cant adobe offer options for all it will make more money having the cloud and perpetual licences plus upgraders that invest evey year or not.
It still doesnt make sense. if they want to make money they should have all the options availabe.
You know a couple of hundred here a couple of hundred there plus the cloud adds up.
If they want to tread new ground they should be reminded of fcpx.
Statistics dont work that way. Those 66 you mention plus others in other forums can represent many dozens if not hundreds of thousands. And adobe knows this.
Adobe seems to think that they are so great that everyonebwants all there products. they are wrong. most of us just use some of the production premium apps most of thw time.
So am I but this move by adobe is only going to increase demand for such software maybe even create a blackmarket something the prohibition era in th USA.
This cc might be good for the thousands of advertising, design studios and new users to try it out but thw other thousands of users will not do the cloud and will look else where if not to a hacked version.