FUCK ADOBE!
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The worst thing Adobe did was not the subscription, but the unwillingness to make the apps open sourced, community driven and API based.
Having a closed system, with no plugins and rigid rules, lots of inconsistencies between apps and countless bugs is a recipe for disaster in the long term.
The entire suite of apps is sluggish, boring, bloated with useless features that nobody uses, non-stop updates that while fixing some bugs will create other bugs and so on.
Zero long term vision...
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Haven't opened any Adobe app since January. That's over $800 they won't be getting from me this year. Good riddance!
I basically live in Figma now - it has plugins for almost if not all of Ai's functionality (yes, including blend tool, line width tool, etc.) and for image editing Affinity offers more than enough for the price of a few weekly beers/coffees and it opens just fine all Adobe file types (not to mention they all work on iPad Pro too).
So unless you need Premiere and Ae, you must be nuts to still pay Adobe...
p.s. and no, it's not just about the cash, but the amount of time and nerves lost from using Adobe apps including crashes, random updates that fuck up settings, random changing workflows, errors with cloud and all the other countless problems that go with these apps.