I use Adobe software in production every day. Part of me feels comfort reading other peoples "gripes". At the same time, as a developer, I also sympathize wit

I use Adobe software in production every day. Part of me feels comfort reading other peoples "gripes". At the same time, as a developer, I also sympathize with the development teams at Adobe. I'm sure many of the people on their respective teams take a lot of pride in the programs they send to market, and undoubtedly they fight many battles with upper-management that they end up losing. "Faster? Who cares about faster, add more features!" the man in the suit says. I speculate that much of the blame for the unreasonable bloat in Adobe applications over the last 5-6 years can be pointed to the people writing the checks. After Effects hit rock bottom on version 7, and only recently with the release of CS3 have things started to look a bit better. After Adobe acquired Macromedia, I'm sure there was a lot of merging they attempted, which so far hasn't been very pretty. Perhaps after another version or two, Adobe will wrangle everything together and start releasing quality software again. Here is a blog post from the Photoshop Product Manager about the dearadobe.com site: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/08/dear_adobe.html http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/08/dear_adobe.html