It is true that when we bought dedicated hardware in the years before IaaS cloud we were locked into that hardware for a period but any cloud-based Infrasture-As-A-Service offering you sign up for today and could cancel in 6 months with nothing lost as you move to a different provider (you pay only for what you use and when).
However, when subscribing to something more at a software (Software-As-A-Service) level like say Office 365 when you end that subscription you have just your documents but no more application to read or edit them. Office 365 does not include perpetual use of a desktop client version of the software. The same goes for Adobe Cloud. An obvious answer may be to rather save everything in open data formats like ODF, PDF, etc but most people do not do this and often this cloud-based software does not support those formats properly (for good reason,m why would they want you to be able to en your service with them?).
You could achieve similar results though by using something like Nextcloud (or Dropbox/GDRive) to sync and share documents created using free LibreOffice.
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