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Whilst things could of course reach that stage, I very much doubt it. Adobe has now had its new DRM for some time. It's current DRM is useless to just about anyone who can google apprentice alf. Or who buys from our ethically challenged friends over at Epubor. Adobe had intended to forcibly switch everyone to this new version, but backed off under pressure. Now it is optional for retailers but the major ones have so far steered well clear of it. In fact I've heard of only a few cases of it being used at all. When and if it does become widely used, I expect it will be reverse engineered. The question is likely to be not if but when.
ADE 2.0.1 is as I understand it the last version of ADE that will simply not handle the new Adobe DRM. The danger with later versions is that if the new DRM is turned off the first you will likely know of it is when the tools fail to decrypt. At which point it is too late for that book. If you have 2.0.1 it will either download with the old DRM or not at all.
Amazon has started playing games with its own drm on its kfx files, for what reason I don't know. Historically my impression is that Amazon has not particularly cared about DRM, with publishers being the driving force behind its implementation. Whether Amazon's latest changes to kfx encryption are signs that this has changed or has been done for some other reason is a matter for speculation. The only fact we can be certain of is that there are currently some kfx files which the tools cannot decrypt. Fortunately there remain other alternatives, at least for the moment.
I have zero interest in going back to print books. However, I will certainly prefer purchasing my books from Vendor's without DRM or where DRM can be removed.
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