It's still a trade-off many designers happily accept given the fact that it took so much longer to open Adobe's products and dealing with their sluggish program

It's still a trade-off many designers happily accept given the fact that it took so much longer to open Adobe's products and dealing with their sluggish programs. You may argue and say why compare with Adobe? You would be right in that case, but it has been the gold standard in design for many years and set expectations on how design applications behave.