As people, I’m sure the lot of Adobe employees are fine human beings, but as a company? Let’s just say the only reason some of us are still with your products is because of a lack of competition.

The other day I was having a friendly debate with a coworker of mine, and he was adamant that the reason so many Adobe products have degraded into turds over the last 10 years is because Adobe has become exceptionally lazy. I fully disagreed with him, explaining that I’m convinced Adobe has become stupid. The first big indicator was when Adobe was so keen on acquiring Flash, demonstrating a backward-looking strategy. Dumb, dumb, dumb. And still Adobe wastes their resources peddling all of this Flash garbage while the rest of the Creative Suite continues to rot. None of us users has any idea exactly what happened to Adobe products, we used to enjoy them, but today we can’t wait for a new generation of tools to come onto the scene. None of us are holding our breath waiting for Adobe to do this, not by a long shot.