That's an interesting question. While we're kind of taking the conversation off topic, let me speculate. Imagine, if you will, that you have a popular product

That's an interesting question. While we're kind of taking the conversation off topic, let me speculate. Imagine, if you will, that you have a popular product that you wish to EOL. And you know that people will not be happy. In fact, there'll be people who are downright angry and feel somehow betrayed. But you're going to do it. These people want to vent their frustration. These days, they can take to Twitter, blogs and any number of sites like HN and Reddit. But what if, as you told them you were discontinuing the product, you also gave them space to scream blue murder? And they would be screaming directly at your company, without even opening a new tab in their browser. Now you've corralled at least some of the vitriol on your own platform. Now you can turn off the comments in a week or a month and all that venom disappears like it was never there. Whether this is Adobe's intention doesn't matter. It's an interesting idea none the less.