During the hurricane, when we were without internet service, I still had to keep working at home for my job.

I have Acrobat 2017, so it shouldn’t require access to the “cloud” to work.
Yet it ran astonishingly slow, so much that I had to force quit several times when it froze my computer.
I ended up using Apple Preview because it worked properly, as advertised, without slowing my system. It is a productivity application. Apparently Acrobat is no longer in that league.

I bought this version so I wouldn’t have to be tethered to the “cloud.” Why was that happening?

Sure enough, when the internet came back on, the application worked as usual.

You cannot tie people’s hands requiring internet access to use your product.

My work computer has no connection to the internet, intentionally. How can I upgrade to a “cloud” application if I can't use the app without crippling my functionality and workflow.

Convince me that I’m wrong. Sell me your “cloud” product.