Your deceptive design link is literally outlining the plan discussed in the rest of this thread.

The first one in your deceptive design was:

Adobe: Unclear yearly subscription terms and cancellation fees "Apparently monthly subscriptions, but you are signed up for a year. Cancelling early results in a 50% of remaining months subscriptions being applied as a cancellation charge."

Then you click through to look at it and the button the user selects says

Annual, Paid Monthly Fee applies if you cancel after 14 days

With an information popup.

Scrolling through the rest all of it is them just selecting this option without reading the details then being upset when the Annual plan is an annual plan.

I have no clue why they decided to settle that lawsuit since they still have the same plan. I'm not a lawyer.

You are describing the current state of Adobe subscription. If you check out the post linked on the deceptive.design page [1], one of the replies states [2]:

after the original thread a year or so ago, team made a clearer way to show pricing options to give ppl/teams who buy an annual sub a discount w/o paying it all up front

So the clear language is new. And that doesn't touch on the losing access during the current billing period either.

> I have no clue why they decided to settle that lawsuit

Because they have changed their subscription page as part of the settlement. All the posters telling you how Adobe ripped them off are describing Adobe from before the settlement.

[1] Adobe's subscription model deploys recurring annual plans or termination with massive penalty - https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1660907518430699523

[2] https://x.com/scottbelsky/status/1661376319169372166