The first time I ever entered a college computer lab, it just happen to be a room of NeXT machines. You could tell immediately they were very high quality machines, and being not Windows or Mac, unlike anything I'd ever seen. I was so confused as to what they were and where they came from.

I mean, LVP is very popular today and is really not much different from Linoleum.

For most modern software, you are not buying a product, you are buying a window of service. You are entering into an agreement that the software will be supported for a reasonable amount of time. Bugs will be fixed, you might get some additional 'free' content. Games got to the point of being so large and expensive, they crossed this threshold long ago. A single player offline game like The Witcher 3 has had what, about 30 updates? And those games are constantly being dwarfed by seasonal, micro-transation games. The single release game was an endangered species a long time ago.