Csp is pushing subscription on PC version. You can still buy perpetual version but they won’t be updated. ( if you own a license now, you are stuck 1.x, if next year CSP update to 2.0 and you buy a perpetual license, your license would stuck on 2.0.x but won’t be updated to 2.1.x and so forth)
The “update pass” subscription let you update to newest version, but once you stop paying, you must go back to the perpetual version you owned before.
I would say it wasn’t that bad as long as they are still offering perpetual license. And in the current 1.x version I don’t think I ever used all of its features yet, so it would still be usable for a long time.
People still use Photoshop PS6 and SAI 1.0 in 2022, so current CSP will still last a long time. And maybe by the time the old CSP become incompatible with Windows, 4.x or 5.x perpetual license is alread out. Now it would be another story if they stopped offering perpetual license altogether.
Anyhow, I’m glad I already got comfortable with Krita before this happened.