Let’s be honest. If you’ve ever opened Photoshop, there’s a 90% chance you didn’t pay for it at first.
So keep sailing the high seas if you must. But the moment your time becomes more valuable than the software? The moment you stop wanting to re-run the patch every month? photo shop pirate
That’s the day you go legit. And you’ll realize: The real Photoshop feature wasn't Generative Fill. It was the installer that just worked. Let’s be honest
You get a real job. Or you finally get a credit card. You click "Subscribe." You cry for a second, but then you realize: Oh wow, I get 100GB of cloud storage. I get Adobe Fonts. It updates without me having to reinstall a sketchy patch. But the moment your time becomes more valuable
But know this: You are not stealing from a poor indie developer; you are stealing from a $200 billion company that expected you to steal it.