Comparing the purchase/rental of an house with software subscription, I suggest, is not a fair analogy, I accept what you say is true in that, if you don't pay the rent you are thrown out and on a purchased house you will still pay tax, there is no alternative.  With software subscription there is an alternative, for now at least, you buy the product outright and use it without paying any further rental or taxes.

There is often an thin line between being paranoid and having a healthy interest in how your personal information is used, by who, and for what purpose.  Each person creates their own boundaries, some will be nearer to my view of being paranoid, some further away but I am not going to condemn either camp.  Cloud computing means I have to trust a company's servers to be there when I need them and to have a fast, reliable broadband connection to be there when I need it.  I am firmly in the "if it can go wrong, it will go wrong" camp hence my reluctance to trust another entity to supply that 24/7.   Cloud computing may well be the way of the future but there are a few benefits from growing old and in my case I am at an age will it will not HAVE to be part of my future.

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.