not only that, but people usually use boomer, in this context, to say that the complaint is stupid, or selfish, or something

the gradual loss of ownership is a real fucking issue

I’ve always blamed Adobe for the subscription mess, and that started in the early 00’s.

And no gen-Z is happy about this model or pushing its use. It’s mostly being pushed by Gen-X and Boomer executives as a further mode of profit extraction in our rentier economic system.

There was a joke about “rethinking the Microsoft model” in a 2005 episode of The Office. The move to subscription based software has been in the works for 25 years or more.

Because that's when the infrastructure started getting developed to support that model