Is the subscription model the future?

No matter what you are interested in, you can see companies everywhere begging for a subscription. Apart from Netflix, Amazon Prime or online learning courses (you can still understand it), you can no longer even buy the other software, but have to take out a subscription (e.g. Photoshop). The strangest are the whole news pages, which make many of their articles only available to subscribers.

Is this actually the future and will it be even more?

Not necessarily in the future. But the present. There's more and more sharing. Own ownership is becoming less and less important.

Whether that will go even further in the future, develop backwards or even other possibilities arise… I can't say

Yes, customer loyalty is important. In addition, you have a secure source of income to z. B rights to pay for football broadcasts.

This is not just the future, but, as you are writing, the present. Our system is always about profit. And, of course, companies have higher income from subscriptions. I assume that it will increase.

Yes, I think it is the future. The advantage for the companies is that they are guaranteed to receive regular money… And that they can easily restrict pirated copies and the actually legal resale of used software.

Other advantages could also be customer loyalty (after 3 years you do not consider whether to buy a new version of the product or maybe a competitor's). In return, the customer receives fluent updates, bug fixes and security patches.

So it's just important to be able to offer a program longer. If a company makes a one-off profit, that is good. But especially with online things, I have running costs through the server. Ie. You have to be able to think that by having more and more new customers with new products. Sometimes that's just not possible.