Sorry folks but the cloud is here to stay, and every month more and more software moves to it. I'm sure it's just a matter of time before Poser and DS move to it as well. It may be a couple years out yet but it will happen. 

Avoiding it is fine for the hobbyist but for professionals, they really have no choice. You have to use Adobe (photoshop, after effects, etc) to be considered a valid cg artist in most studios, and where are those programs located now? Same with autodesk and many other pro bundles. 

There are positive sides to it tho. It makes the pro apps that are required by various studios easier to afford for the indie/freelance artists that work for those studios (because many studios don't hire in-house artists, they shop it out to the lowest bidder first). A $5000 price tag leaves a lot of freelancers like myself out, while a $100 monthly sub is much more affordable.

Not a lot anyone can do about it. I mean, you can boycott, but there won't be enough people doing that for the big dogs like autodesk or adobe to even notice or care so you're only hurting yourself. But the studios and bigger artists that require those apps to keep themselves in business don't have much of a choice. As a freelancer you have to use the software that the studio or client you're working for requires, and most of them require autodesk or adobe.