I use Illustrator professionally. Some of these things may have changed since I last looked at Inkscape but I found it to be lacking in these features that are

I use Illustrator professionally. Some of these things may have changed since I last looked at Inkscape but I found it to be lacking in these features that are core to my workflow: * support for CMYK work, as well as spot colors, and the whole dark art of color profiles - last I checked Inkscape was RGB-only and there are things involved in professional printing that you simply cannot do without CMYK and spot support * global color swatches (change the swatch, everything you drew with it changes to match) Also having 20y of Illustrator files on my hard drive that I regularly pull elements and appearance stacks out of for reuse is a compelling argument for me to stick with AI.