Making Photoshop a subscription service was an extremely successful business decision, so I'm not sure what the comparison is supposed to mean here.
I say this as someone who switched to Krita and canceled CC subscription.
Enshificstion kills companies slowly, then all at once.
"extremely successful business decision" and "inherently disliked" can both be true. Increasing fees quite often works out for the business too, but consumers don't generally like it.