I really dont like the modern style of making business. All the forcing of the own customers is despicable.
What I even dislike more is the way they try to communicate changes that benefit the company like if they where benefits for the customer and expecting goodwill, that they themselves are not willing to give.
Maxon is by no means the worst, but it definitely has developed into this direction.
They are still offering perpetual. But as long as it is so much more expensive I will just update every now and then, making shure to pay them less then they would have gotten with the MSA (out of principal).
But thank god the 3D Market has real competition. I see so many people around that changed from max and maya because of the behaviour of autodesk. Maxon will have to make shure, that they will not alienate to many and loose them to blender (once they are gone they hardly will ever come back).