You can't even just buy Adobe Creative Suite anymore, you must subscribe, and even then it's Adobe CC not a versioned CS3, CS6, or w/e so they can get away with peddling mediocrity for years without the proof of innovation a version-based system requires. Similar deal with Microsoft, I pay them whatever a month for Office 365 because I couldn't figure out how to just buy the office suite. The other day I saw that Office 2016 is out, great, since I'm subscribing that should be pushed to me, right? I spent several minutes attempting to understand when and how I would receive 2016 and then just gave up. Not a very consumer friendly environment, at least for consumers who are trying to be good and pay for their software.
Adobe regularly refers to CC, CC2014, and CC2015. Even things like CC2015.2 to denote a second minor update. And all of their programs still have a traditional version number somewhere in them; the old warhorses like Illustrator and Photoshop are getting close to version 20.
I'll agree with the peddling mediocrity part though. AI CC2015 is chock full of new bugs in core parts of the program.
