no longer able to create recovory media

[Mint]

You only need the Home edition to support Enterprise LTSC editions as far as I know, see this comparison chart.

About the DRM you describe - this really shouldn’t be a problem:

First off, you can backup your license from registry so this would always be recoverable as long as the underlying hardware didn’t change fundamentally.

Secondly, the DRM won’t stop HBS from working suddenly only because servers aren’t reachable temporarily. It is a very forgiving DRM that only makes sure you don’t install the same license on multiple different PCs which is the simplest method to prevent piracy. And there’s always a very helpful support that can help you with licensing problems (if there really is a need for this). I think that’s really fair.

Thirdly, any recovery media you create embeds your current license and will always work on every PC you boot up from. There is no additional check implemented, you won’t have to worry that your data can’t be recovered because of DRM or a (very unlikely) sudden vanishing of Hasleo.

And finally, there’s also no timebombs whatsoever that could potentially stop the software from working except for the trial version that you can download and install for a limited trial period. Btw, this trial version is another method to make sure you always have a way to restore your data: If in the future you would lose your license somehow, didn’t have rescue media and Hasleo would be gone, you could still install the trial version and restore your data.

So you should really be safe here.

Again, backup is the bomb shelter of the computer world, if you're confident that things won't go wrong why bother with it in the first place. DRM adds point of failure, and that is unacceptable. I have 20 TB of data that has been collected over the course of 20 years. I'm not going to risk losing it because the vender's servers went offline or by MB died or that both happened at the same time.