You could also say that new commercial applications are cheap knockoffs of older versions.We certainly don't bother with the upgrade treadmill here. We'll spend a small fortune on serious software if it has demonstrable value to us. But upgrade to a recent version of MS Office on the desktop? I suppose that's marginally more likely than us signing up to a recurring subscription for something we already bought once, where the "enhancements" mostly involve added DRM, randomly changing user interfaces, paying several times as much in practice for useful software, and cloud serv^W^Wsecurity, reliability, sustainability and privacy risks that we would never seriously consider taking.
Open-source programs are at least stable. It is less likely some commercial company will flush my investment into toilet.
I so wish that were true. In reality, I don't find most FOSS native applications significantly better or worse in this respect than proprietary/commercial ones.
Still, both are dramatically better than most SaaS applications or magically changing software like Firefox and Chrome.