Comment by ubermonkey

>Software as a Service is impossible to pirate and generates continuous income rather than a single upfront fee. That’s all you really need to know to understand why there is less and less desktop software coming to the market these days.

I'd argue that the increasing complexity of the stack involved in any given product has also brought us to a place where the kinds of thorough QA we had 20 years ago isn't really viable anymore, at least for most smaller orgs.

The ease with which you can fix a deployed product in a SaaS situation is a huge boon.