[morzh]

Up until this new model, the idea was, you buy your software outright, and pay for support, should you need it. If you decided you no longer do, you freeze the license and use what you have, no upgrades.
This is the situation with my PADS right now. I know it well enough to not need any support.
Today there is more of that subscription nonsense. I mean, maybe from the corporate perspective it makes sense, dunno.
In todays EE CADs there are many things that are not needed often or for many people; this is why I am happy with PADS 9.5 and probably would work even better with PADS 5, when at the company where I used it, we had more expensive package, with diff pairs, by a layer rules etc. When I felt we no longer needed upgrades, we froze the license just the same.

This said, KiCAD is good. What's even better, the most popular found everywhere CAD library models are for Altium and KiCAD, so (I like to build my own parts) manhy folks would be happy to not having to deal with library anymore.