Your biases may be showing here. I think shutting down servers is just as bad as removing single player games from people's libraries. The end result is quite the same for the customers: they can no longer use the products they paid for.

In my case, the last Ubi game I purches, and played, was released back in 2003. Hopefully that clears my stance on this particular company

As someone who does not enjoy single player games, I don't think this is bias. There is no functional reason for a server for a single player game. There is no reason for Ubisoft to have to make these cost-cutting moves in the first place.

It's bringing an inherent disadvantage of closed multi-player games to single player games.