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It’s mostly independent designers that feel they can’t afford Adobe level subscriptions.

• detritus 4y ago
  Or "Don't want to pay for", which includes me. The feature set that I use in my daily driver - Illustrator - has pretty much remained constant since CS2 or thereabouts, but I have to maintain a subscription solely to ensure that I can load files from clients without any concern about incompatability or breakage. It's quite annoying paying good money for old rope for years and years on end.
  • GlacierFox 4y ago
    You'll hate to admit it but I know for a fact that a lot of the tools introduced after CS2 have become indispensable and allow you to get work done faster and more efficiently than back in the day.
    • the_mar 4y ago
      Like what?
    • detritus 4y ago
      "For a fact"? Only if you presume to know what I do and how I work, I suppose. I'd not be so bold, personally. - ed: I wondered perhaps if Smart Guides were newer than I remembered, but nup, having checked - they were there in CS2.
• cosmodisk 4y ago
  From western world perspective, $85/month for a whole suite of powerful apps is absolute peanuts if they are used in a professional setting. An average carpenter probably spends more on tool upgrades each year.
  • Existenceblinks 4y ago
    It's just "1 man hour" for a random experienced freelance dude. It's crazy when you think you wouldn't hire this guy for just an hour but 70 hours for just an epic feature. That's already $5950. $85 / (30 * 24 = 720) hours. Wow so cheap! Now we have some sense of how business is working.