I think the root of the problem is very much the attitude that people need Photoshop and Illustrator for any startup that isn't a professional photography studi

I think the root of the problem is very much the attitude that people need Photoshop and Illustrator for any startup that isn't a professional photography studio or a professional design agency. That calibre of software is completely overkill for anything but those purposes and it's sad that people use it instead of Pixlr and Inkscape out of laziness. Instead of finding the right solution for their purpose they steal the right tool for a million uses. Adobe doesn't charge $1000 because they want to screw people or push them to pirate, they charge that because it's Ferrari software for professional studios that charge $1000 an hour that use it as their primary tool. It sucks that all software isn't that good but not all cars are Ferraris, and for good reason. As far as YC is concerned, I think they can do a lot better than blowing money on Photoshop for web developers.