This step only damage the marketability of paid content even at other microstock agencies. Free content will cannibalize from paid content, and ultimately simply harms the content creators. This kind of promotion has never excelled in functionality for all involved. The functional model is the one that offers: Buy YX amount and get XY for free. But if you offer almost 70k free stuff(and allow 100 downloads per day) without any further restriction, where is the motivation for buying paid content? Among the 70k free stuff, there is almost always something that can be used instead of paid content. This does not provide a better chance of gaining a new buyers of paid content, but on the contrary, this step can dramatically reduce sales of paid content. And what is worse, not only at Adobe, but very simply it can hit sales on other microstock agencies. Adobe alone can make a profit from it, but for creators this can be a total disaster. I would very much like to be wrong in this regard but unfortunately this will probably not be the case.

I don't want to be a negativist, but if the sales of the creators will fall down thanks to this(a lot of creators are already affected by current events in the world), so many do not even qualify for the free Adobe CC products. Thus, creators' spending will increase again, while revenues are flying sharply down.

I feel sad as I watch where the entire microstock market is heading.