And I wouldn't expect a price drop from Adobe unless someone like Serif starts to bite into market share.
My introductory pricing ended after two years so it went up to the regular $49.99/month for me. I can afford it, but it was enough pain to make me consider if I was getting good value or if I was simply buying Adobe products because it was a habit. I have a business so I don't like to waste time quibbling about modest expenditures, but I also can't be handing out money just because me and Adobe go way back.
It made me realize, I rarely use my Adobe products. I subscribed just in case I needed them, but when the cost of convenience jumped up to $600/year it hit the threshhold to trigger the "Do I really need all of this" decision. I'm a developer and a Photographer and I have issues with Lightroom so their main value to me is Photoshop, but as projects get more and more complex and visual assets become easier to come by, I spend less and less time using anything serious in Photoshop and so in most months, I was basically paying a lot of money to have an image resizing tool that I was used to.
There really should be more flexible packages, it seems to be either Photography, or EVERYTHING. As a print designer I only really need Ps, Illy and InDesign.
I'm a freelancer and a full stack Web developer so their code oriented tools should be where I find my value, except that I don't care for any of them and only touch them briefly when a client needs something very specific, which isn't that often. I hate Flash and Dreamweaver and I don't see enough reason to switch to Adobe Edge from Tumult Hype 3. It was really annoying me to think that outside of Photoshop, I was actually paying to keep programs I despise around "just in case."
So, I'm now getting used to Affinity Photo and Designer. I won't lie and say it's a smooth transition. If I could keep my plan at $29.99/month, I'd sweep my discomfort with my habit of always paying money to Adobe under the rug for at least another year and not have to think about it for another 12 months, but when you start to feel like you're getting gouged, you start to make decisions based on pride and you'll do anything to avoid paying anything more than you absolutely have to.