The dirty secret that people who tell you you've just got to learn to accept change on it is that it's almost always bad. It's not always bad, but it's almost always bad. At the least, it's not good.
Just discovered #Affinity (now owned by #Canva) have removed purchase a perpetual license for v2, shut down the v2 add-on store, and made v3 freeish (some features - looks like mostly AI? - behind a subscription).