To be fair, to crack all adobe products requires a few reg keys. It's wild that they have just given up on pirates.

They don't want to be too hard on piracy, its their new/young user on ramp method

	▲	kenhwang 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Also a lot of recent features are AI related and rely on talking to Adobe servers, which would require a valid subscription. They're probably betting the AI features are valuable enough that local only pirated copies aren't a threat long term.