You make many good points, especially NLEs and DAWs. For me, the last "killer" Photoshop feature was layers. That was in 1994. I still use it every day, but on

You make many good points, especially NLEs and DAWs. For me, the last "killer" Photoshop feature was layers. That was in 1994. I still use it every day, but only because I have almost 30 years of muscle memory. It's getting slower and slower for every release. Granted, it inherited a bunch of nifty web-savvy features from Adobe ImageReady in the first half of the 2000s, but the whole sh*tshow that went down when ImageReady was killed was internal politics and a sign of crappy things to come. It's interesting that the same navel-gazing, customer-ignoring attitude that killed QuarkXPress in favour of Adobe InDesign struck Adobe. (By "killer", I mean a feature that completely changed the way I could work with graphics. Sure, I've saved a bunch of time with Actions, but the feature was not transformative.)