Well, my version is older so I dunno how it compares to other things.
Adobe is making it so that you pay a monthly fee and they give you some kind of package deal, or everything is hosted on a cloud, or something that makes it so you have to keep paying continuously to keep access to the program. It's a deal if you're the kind of person who always gets the newest version. So, like if you were a professional artist or something it would make sense, I suppose.