Many thanks for the quite interesting link.
While reading statements such as:
“An authorization system shouldn’t get in your way, but support you in the onboarding process … shouldn’t restrict you as the customer … shouldn’t stop you from using your products … The future will be dongle-free.”
one can hardly be disappointed!
Those official statements, moreover, sound like fully confirming the actual existence of “problems” regarding the whole… dongle affair.
Let’s hope the mentioned “future” is not too far and let’s hope also, as you rightly pointed out, that the developers of the forthcoming brand new license management system don’t make the mistake of assuming a constant Internet connection.
Not only because there would be the risk of replacing one hardware-based “annoyance” with a software-based one but also because, especially nowadays, one of the simplest and safest methods to reduce IT security risks consists precisely in staying disconnected whenever the connection is not strictly necessary. A situation that is very common when making music with a DAW. Not to mention, as you rightly said, all those situations when a DAW is needed and an Internet connection is not available.