Is Cloud worth all the trouble it causes?

Question

It's almost gotten amusing to see how much trouble the CC implementation is causing. The whole concept doesn't scale for anyone who doesn't have the luxury of (very) high speed Internet connections. Even for those who do, there have been difficulties galore - just browse the forums. (The countless posts and questions are only representative of users who took the time to write.) I suppose the ultimate decision is whether to applaud Adobe for being a pioneer in cloud technology or to condemn them for inflicting a technology in its infancy that has caused so many wasted user-hours. I lean strongly to the latter. Customers shouldn't have to navigate pitfalls that have appeared as a byproduct of Adobe's learning curve. I'm one of the many who run CC and CS6 Creative Suite side-by-side because CC has broken some Photoshop plugins. There's an important update to PS CS6, but I can't install it because of a poorly conceived installer assumption (that all unused language files would be left intact in the app). Rather than fix this, Adobe has resorted to the uninstall/reinstall nonsense, which is a known indicator of indifferent, vanishing support. (Another is using forums as a substitute for trained technical specialists.)
If one looks hard enough, there is the largely unpublicized site, http://prodesigntools.com/adobe-cc-direct-download-links.html. Here one can download Assistant-free installers for CC products. Even this grudging accomodation from Adobe falls short of the mark and illustrates Adobe's intransigence about their new way of doing things. The obvious solution would be for Adobe to provide installable media as an option. This  provoked a long and interesting discussion on the same site, http://prodesigntools.com/adobe-cc-direct-download-links.html/comment-page-2#comment-44824. Read from Daniel's first comment on July 7th, 2013 to end. To summarize, it's about the illusory hoops one must jump through if their Internet connections are too slow or too secure to play in the cloud.
From my vantage point, there are two candidates for the 2013 Booby Prize, Adobe for its cloud-only stance and Microsoft for Windows 8 and the RT tablets. It's too close to call, but Adobe could get back on course a lot easier than Microsoft.

Answer 1

After 3 months of reviewing the CC for Teams I have come to the conclusion that:
Adobe MAX was a smoke and mirror trick.
Adobe should be taken to court and sued for their con job called Adobe MAX.
Adobe should be taken to court and sued for charging extra for a team accounts and delivering the same thing as a single user.
Complaints need to be filed with the credit card companies that Adobe is stealing from their customers and the credit card companies should stop all payments to Adobe until can verify that they are delivering the products customers are paying for.
Tell anyone that is thinking of going the CC route to stay away from it, IT DOES NOT WORK!