The user should be the one who can decide if he wants to update or not. I know some professional designers who love CS3 and they don't see any reason to update.
The rant is not only from photographers community. A manager of one of the largest printing company told me this would be a disaster due to future compatibility issues.
Those pirates and crackers should have been spending their time to develop open source alternative Photoshop instead of cracking it. Still not too late.
I will stick to my current version, since I'm afraid all of my photoshop file wouldn't open one day when I have to cancel my subscription. Too scary to think I have to subscribe forever.
I heard they completely updated their quality control scheme recently. All lenses has to pass a newly developed test machine at the end of the manufacturing line.