Is there any reasonable way to update Photoshop CS6 to 13.1.2?

I never had a problem updating my CS6 products until I signed up for CC. I run both versions of Photoshop, CC because it is more capable, and CS6 because ALL my plug-ins work. Now that CC has decided to do my CS6 updating for me,  I can't get the new version to install.
Let me editorialize a moment; in a more forthright world, the CC installers should be advertised as the betaware that they are. A casual glance at the forum posts more than proves this.
To be fair, I did remove the non US English localizations and legal files. Those were nothing more than 'Dust bunnies' on my hard drive, which would never have been left in place if the original CS6 installer had offered that rather obvious option. Adobe has offered nothing in the way of solutions except the speculative answers that removal of this 'cruft' is PROBABLY the cause of the update failure, and that uninstalling CS6 and reinstalling MIGHT remedy the problem. If not, it has been suggested to run a CS6 cleanup utility prior to reinstallation. Nowhere is there mention of collateral damage (loss of plug-ins, actions, etc.) which might result from following this approach. Such a blunderbuss solution is the equivalent of a medical team removing a lung and kidney to alleviate the discomfort of an ingrown toenail.
First, my CS6 is a perpetually licensed product. What gives Adobe the right to lump it in with a cloud product that needs to be reactivated far too frequently. Secondly, how do such poorly written installers make it through in-house quality assurance?
Any software suite will have components that a user will never want to install, and many will leave garbage like language files, of use only in other corners of the world. These things beg to be removed, and until CC came along, there was never a penalty for doing so.
If there are any real experts at Adobe, perhaps they can lobby the designers to write better installers or perhaps come up with a far less painful workaround.
Finally, browsing the forums has convinced me that the cloud-only approach has left many of Adobe's customers monumentally dissatisfied. I count myself among them.
The ultimate test of the cloud will be server response, security and down-time. So far, the jury remains out on security and down-time, but server response is already dreadful at certain times of day. For example, it took me almost five minutes to log in this evening. What will happen when someone needs to reactivate prior to an important rush project, and some hacker, internal foul-up or an act of God has brought the servers to their knees?

I checked all the posts regarding this, it seems I have a 3G. Only found out now how to check my model. Thanks for your reply.

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