I haven't had a subscription in years. I stopped them for the same reasons people are stopping them now -- too many ads, price, traditional patterns re-worked in the latest fabric line in ad-nauseum, too many artsy things, etc.
But my pet peeve is the renaming of the traditional patterns. There have been several woman who spent a great deal of time cataloging quilt patterns & their names and they just get arbitrarily renamed. Each magazine will give the same block a completely different name. If the designer or magazine wants to name the quilt, fine, but somewhere in the article it should say something about 'this quilt uses such 'n' such pattern'. No wonder the newbies have no idea what a pattern is called!