They recently announced 'by the way we're deleting Animator forever' and seemed genuinely surprised by the overwhelming 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.

[–] pemptago@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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).

[–] Rugnjr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

This, I've never understood the learned helplessness of some people. The 12,000 employee international company I work for doesn't pay for any Adobe products. You can just use literally any other product or open source alternative, I promise you there are multiple good ones with extremely well supported professional workflows used by millions of people every day, for every conceivable Adobe product. You can learn a new workflow I believe in you, it will take like three months to get used to.