Until recently, I was using the Adobe suite extensively. I decided to switch to a competing software exactly because of the practices mentioned in the article.
I don't want to elaborate unnecessarily, but I can confirm that these accusations are absolutely valid, and I even recently told my friends about how unfair Adobe's practices towards consumers are.
I also personally know someone who decided to block their payment card at the bank because it was the only way they knew to free themselves from Adobe's subscription.
Every organism is alive only in a certain medium. Viruses "come alive" in a host, e.g. a human body, or in solution. Humans are live only in Earth's environment. There is no life without the context of the broader environment that it can live in.