Can't believe I am stuck paying for this garbage program. Absolutely filled with bugs that even their support team can't fix. Brand new powerful Windows Computer exclusively used to fill out forms on Adobe and Adobe Pro won’t operate without glitches.
Fuck Adobe. They need to open source everything they’ve ever built to atone for the incalculable damage they’ve done to the world of digital art.
In my opinion, one of the best things a person could do for humanity today is to join the ranks at Adobe with the sole intention of leaking every last line of source code. They bought up all of their competitors in the entire creative software ecosystem without so much as a peep from regulators. If you want to do ANYTHING creative in a digital medium in 2026, you’ll be forced to pay them a monthly fee. Literally, they are the landlords putting profits directly in the way of digital creativity.
Not only would forced-open-sourcing their IP warchest force Adobe to stop charging so much (because “clean room rewrites” of their cash cow apps would start appearing everywhere) it would force them to admit that they employ shit software engineers that pile spaghetti code on top of spaghetti code. They’re drowning in technical debt because they have no competition and have no reason to innovate. So they just tack bullshit on top and slap some marketing and AI hype on it and call it a day.
If you want to do ANYTHING creative in a digital medium in 2026, you’ll be forced to pay them a monthly fee.
This is giving Adobe too much credit. They suck, for sure, and are monopolistic and have set the industry back, but if people want to do creative things, there are manageable options outside of Adobe. Especially if you focus on alternative software for a particular niche (photography, illustration, compositing, etc).
They recently announced ‘by the way we’re deleting Animator forever’ and seemed genuinely surprised by the vicious backlash. That alone is reason to say, nope, you don’t own the software anymore. You just threatened an entire global industry, out of nowhere, for no gain. A civilized society would levy fines just for the fakeout.
Fuck Adobe. They need to open source everything they’ve ever built to atone for the incalculable damage they’ve done to the world of digital art.
In my opinion, one of the best things a person could do for humanity today is to join the ranks at Adobe with the sole intention of leaking every last line of source code. They bought up all of their competitors in the entire creative software ecosystem without so much as a peep from regulators. If you want to do ANYTHING creative in a digital medium in 2026, you’ll be forced to pay them a monthly fee. Literally, they are the landlords putting profits directly in the way of digital creativity.
Not only would forced-open-sourcing their IP warchest force Adobe to stop charging so much (because “clean room rewrites” of their cash cow apps would start appearing everywhere) it would force them to admit that they employ shit software engineers that pile spaghetti code on top of spaghetti code. They’re drowning in technical debt because they have no competition and have no reason to innovate. So they just tack bullshit on top and slap some marketing and AI hype on it and call it a day.
This is giving Adobe too much credit. They suck, for sure, and are monopolistic and have set the industry back, but if people want to do creative things, there are manageable options outside of Adobe. Especially if you focus on alternative software for a particular niche (photography, illustration, compositing, etc).
They recently announced ‘by the way we’re deleting Animator forever’ and seemed genuinely surprised by the vicious backlash. That alone is reason to say, nope, you don’t own the software anymore. You just threatened an entire global industry, out of nowhere, for no gain. A civilized society would levy fines just for the fakeout.