This matches my feelings. It seems that I used to believe there would be cool and powerful tools for more and more things, but now I'm expecting recurring subscriptions on ever simpler stuff until I'm paying by the character (plus a monthly sub) to type into notepad.

Most likely this was always the case, just a bit bigger and obvious now. I comfort myself with the belief that the number of cool and powerful tools released under properly free licenses can only grow, even if they proportion shrinks.