What Adobe chooses to do, I could care less, just not much less.  As has been said very often, a company has the right to manage.  Even when they manage to alienate most of their customer base and they "Manage" themselves out of existence.  Usually when this happens, it's not a  bad thing.

I have Gimp, I have Photo Plus, Gimp serves most of my needs.  I have PSE also, and after I had to reinstall windows to get rid of whatever that threw in the computer, you won't see me putting anything like that in again.  Once burned, twice learned.

Doric.

The "I" in Doric is Silent.