People Aren't Happy With Adobe's Spyware-Like TOS Update: Users of Photoshop, Substance 3D, and other Adobe products are now required to provide the company with unlimited access to their projects.

And therein lies the problem. People have started whining an awful lot without a single change in their behavior. It's akin to the old joke "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!"

I'd say it's more c/BoringDystopia

There’s some in this giant list of free alternative software / web services to popular paid ones https://slrpnk.net/post/10162152

Yes, though for certain things, Adobe products are the industry standard and there's no way to escape that. For others, it just requires learning new apps. There was a great discussion about GIMP the other day for example.

I like FireAlpaca, myself