I still use Photoshop 7. & Premiere 5 (point sumething). The archaic updates like Version 4 of the whole package is so alien I never got into it. Photoshop for that looks to be identical but when an app does what you can cope with there is no incentive to upgrade.
I never got on with InDesign because it couldn't do the one thing I relied on in Pagemaker. Adobe refuse to accept the principle that something that is better still has to do the same things that the old one did. Backward capability (something that Micro$oft address far more than Apple) is being lost in the rush to smarten our phones IME.

Sadly the "Cloud" model is the one that the world is moving to. So what if you can't get broadband at any time?
Though rare (but I don't speak to many on the subject of broadband providers) I know of three serious instances of outages, one tried to run a streaming radio station, another one runs a radio programme (unconnected) and the third lives in a rural location. All lost their service for weeks and all involved BT and two were caused by administrative cock-ups. The other the guy solved by upgrading and the engineer found the cause: a damaged wire!

I stick with what works without connection, &/or is free. The cleverness should be with the user, after all there are more ways of skinning a cat than choking it with cream & butter.