Do you use Adobe products in a professional environment? How much do you pay a month for your phone, cable TV, internet, etc etc, is $8 per month really that onerous for pro grade software that is constantly updated?
I am quite happy with the $8 a month price of the Photographer suite as opposed to the older license.
I get what you are saying, and yes I use it professionally, however I was paying for the full suite at the time since I needed AE, PP, LR, and PS since I offer both video and photography services which was adding up to around $600/yr.
You could still argue that that is not much; but those "updates" you mentioned were neither desired nor in most cases beneficial; every PP update was more like a beta test that broke everyone until the update to fix the update came out. LR and PS are the same way, so unstable after updates that I stopped updating until months after the update had been out and even then sometimes something would break in the middle of a project due to an update (mainly performance issues but sometimes crashing).
DR on the other hand is fantastic, this pandemic gave me to the time I needed to learn how to replace AE and PP with DR (I have already downgraded to the photographer only suite), and it is rock solid stable compared to PP. I wrapped up all of my outstanding projects using DR and it is a one time cost of $300 with updates for life. DR 16 has really come into its own as a full fledged NLE and now that i am familiar with node based editing AE seems like an ancient way to do things.
So yes, if there was a DR equivalent for LR and PS I would absolutely switch in a heartbeat. I know $8 does not sound like much ($52 in my case) but I estimate that I spent over $4,000.00 on Adobe over the past 6yrs for features I neither asked for, needed, or in the end even used. I really don't do much beyond basic layer masking, color grading, skin retouching, blemish removal, flambient, etc. to the images that I take for customers; that is not $4,000 worth of software in my book.