> We see nothing.
Clear your glasses. For example - https://getartcraft.com/apps Thanks to those people we may soon have great alternatives to monopolies.
Clear your glasses. For example - https://getartcraft.com/apps Thanks to those people we may soon have great alternatives to monopolies.
Adobe is cheap compared to that miserable experience.
Sounds exactly like every Adobe product ever. I guess they went too far on feature parity.
And that is because they've had 30 years of effort thrown into them. It's not the big picture that's the issue, it's the thousands of small things. Stuff hidden in the menus that millions of people use. The corpus of educational material out there to help you get stuff done. And the flexibility which is really difficult to match. A good example is the ability for Lightroom to pull reasonable detail out of shadows from RAW images. No other product can touch that, not DxO/affinity/Photomator/Darktable/RAWtherapy.
LightCraft's exposure slider doesn't even work well. Blows everything out. No interpolation curve. It's just BAM!
Unfortunately corporate IT doesn't care - they are not using it. On my own systems I've long switched to alternatives.
And remeber Flash? The software that Adobe bought and murdered becuse of their software development inaptitude? If it didn't end up in their hands it would be part of web standards by now and all of the human creativity that this software spawned wouldn't end up smashed into smitherines.
Adobe is cancer of user facing software. Always has been.
Adobe is a company that firmly squats in few very large niches of human activity and despite its mediocrity and awefulness starves any other software that dares to venture into them. It should have been broken by anti-monopoly laws 3 times by now.
I don't know how somebody can look at how much and in what manner they are charging their customers with cancelation fees and such and think that it's an evidence of providing great value and not that's it's a sign of clearly patgological grasp on the market that they have.
I will never forgive them killing Fireworks and Flash and developing Acrobat, Photoshop and Illustrator the way they did.
I haven't touched any of their stuff since content aware resize. I'm sure that they learned to polish their turds, because it's 2020's, everyone did. I'll be celebrating their ride down as more and more people start banging out simple tools with AI agents to make the edits they need instead of digging through tons of documentation and "educational" materials to find the one almost correct option at the bottom of nested menus of Adobe crapware.
> A good example is the ability for Lightroom to pull reasonable detail out of shadows from RAW images. No other product can touch that, not DxO/affinity/Photomator/Darktable/RAWtherapy.
> LightCraft's exposure slider doesn't even work well. Blows everything out. No interpolation curve. It's just BAM!
Do you know that an agent can build a simple Rust app for you that's going to be small, blazing fast and will implement for you the best 3 algorithm for that, straight from their respective papers and give you knobs for adjusting every parameter they have with any manner of precision?
I don't like the Creative Cloud suite that much (FWIW I prefer Affinity, A.R.T., DxO PhotoLab, CaptureOne, any real alternative).
But Adobe's apps are pretty solidly reliable, if uninspiring in places (Affinity's layer model is better for example).
What it really shows is ego, arrogance and disdain for the users while running an AI cargo cult.
> What it really shows is ego, arrogance and disdain for the users while running an AI cargo cult.
It seems you have unreasonable expectations of a new piece of software because you don't like people who use AI.
All of them cost money. They are ripping off Adobe to create the new Adobe.
The worst thing is that there are genuine legit open source projects that already offered an alternative but they did not need AI or ripping off Adobe as a marketing gimmick.
Vibecoded should not be an endorsement in 2026, it should be a warning.
As it stands right now, it proofs little more than it can replicate the post-boot screen of the original products.
Just because every tech news outlet was dumb enough to report it without trying it doesn't mean you have to join the echo chamber.
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There are definitely examples out there that do use a similar relentlessly agentic development style that have produced great results. e.g. xberg[0] (formerly kreuzberg), is a great document content extractor, and in a relatively short amount of time has become one of the most robust and performant. I've reported about a dozen edge cases of documents of various types that were unextractable, and the maintainer (or their agents) were able to add a fix in maximum a day turnaround every time.
Moral compass/integrity stuff. Can't explain why, it just feels like absolutely the wrong direction to be heading in.