Who is Apple’s new Creator Studio actually for?

Apple was the last champion of the “pay once, own forever” crowd, a safe harbor for some of the creatives fleeing Adobe’s monthly ransom. Now it has introduced Creator Studio, its own subscription-based offering that bundles together tools including Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage (as well as newly AI-infused productivity apps like Pages and Numbers).

There are already two major creative suites out there: Adobe Creative Cloud and Canva. The former is clearly oriented to the high-end...