That's exactly it for me... I can use Photoshop and Illustrator, but there were just times I wanted to do a vector and bitmap work combined and the ease of use

That's exactly it for me... I can use Photoshop and Illustrator, but there were just times I wanted to do a vector and bitmap work combined and the ease of use in Fireworks really made that feel right to me. Maybe it felt like.. a shortcut - if I have to admit it! Unfortunately, the last Mac laptop I had died (it was quite old), so I only have a Windows laptop at the moment. I haven't made the switch to Sketch yet as a result. Sketch seems heavily used for UI/UX designs/mockups, but do you find it as good for just individual image construction/building tasks? Or is it better for the overall layout, flow, mockup and design workflow? I'm finding it hard to explain what it was about Fireworks that felt so right to me - there were times I could get an interesting image built that was both vector and bitmap, very quickly. Sometimes, I think it was the accessibility of the tools offered, it just had the right combination for what I spent most of my time doing (graphics for web/digital, that could move in or out of the print world if needed since it could be vector, sometimes whole layouts/designs, other times just detail work or piecemeal work).