Hi, I'm the OP of the medium article. For photoshop, I'm replacing with Sketch and Photoshop CS6 For illustrator, I'm replacing with Affinity and Illustrator

Hi, I'm the OP of the medium article. For photoshop, I'm replacing with Sketch and Photoshop CS6 For illustrator, I'm replacing with Affinity and Illustrator CS6 For indesign, I'm replacing with .. Indesign CS6. As you can see, the issue is that for print Indesign is far and away the best app for the job and has no replacement. I'll probably end up paying a monthly fee to finish Indesign specific work (which is fine because it is rare for me). For work that I need to share resources, CS6 is fine for what I do. For work that doesn't have that requirement, then I'm using alternatives and speeding up my workflow significantly. As I work remotely, on smaller scale projects, the bulk of my work is easily moved to my new workflow. If I was working in a Studio, things would probably be different. I'm lucky.