[korginator]

I paid for Affinity Photo because of its reasonably priced perpetual license, being a great alternative to Adobe's tools for my work.

Canva's business model revolves around cloud based services, and subscription licensing, and I don't see how Canva will keep both pricing models available in the long term. The linked "pledge" is just a canned public relations soundbite during this merger process, until six months later when they pull the plug and mandate subscriptions.

Call me cynical, but I've seen this happen time and again. Parallels is another product I'd been using for ages until they switched to subscriptions.