I can’t speak for him; but I suspect that it’s more of a “dangers of not owning anything” piece than an argument that Adobe should give the feds the finger.
When something is as-a-service you are at the mercy of the vendor and anything they choose or are forced to do, indefinitely, because you never actually take custody of even a freestanding copy.
Getting killswitched because of sanctions is slightly more exotic than the usual cases of just enjoying endless pricing model perturbation; with the occasional surprise EOL when strategies change or vendors die; but all the same genre.
There’s absolutely nothing about a photo editor that implies an ongoing dependence on specific transnational togetherness; until you add ‘cloud’ and deliberately engineer for brittleness.
