Is this really the issue with Adobes’s subscription, is it the amount they charge? Is it their customers? Is it something in the software? The brand? Can any of those issues be tackled and create a viable subscription model for Sketch?

True that Fireworks users adopted Sketch instead of jumping into the (pricier) subscription model, but to go as far as saying that’s proof subscriptions don’t work when maybe they’re actually displeased with a brand that subsists due to their monopoly, that consistently ignored their users for years, and finally discontinued a product essential to a large percentage of their customer base, doesn’t make sense to me.