For any of you who do not also use Adobe's new Creative Cloud versions, I can state that this example of new Adesk modifications and deprecated earlier productivity features is eerily similar.
And please. Report it?? Complain about it?? No.
These trends are about large organizations slipping into a culture or a corporate mindset of,"Let us make careers out of leading ungrateful customers through whatever labyrinths we can dream up to outdo each other in the employment hierarchy. Our senior managers shall measure how "productive" we are in terms of how many shiny new labyrinths we've devised.
Pure folly. I mean, even if they get a kick out of watching how many "zero productivity" hours they levy upon customers, knowing that per the "fine print", they can ultimately get away with it, heehee, I mean really, even if they do..., shouldn't there at least be some natural absence of complete arrogance, that says hey, let's have a person to review our "new" product who can test these brilliant ideas more objectively? Not from the coding bias which is too close and intimate with the whole product, to imagine how an ordinary draftsperson or "at home" designer might burn out on this nonsense. It seriously boggles the mind that senior management would not hire engineers of the non-coding persuasions, Adesk's own retirees for example, to review application feature saturation quotients or whatever senior mgrs do. Such a reviewer would preferably be able to imagine how easily the software works (or !!DOESN'T!!) for quick basic drafting and engineering tasks. This is what so much btes about the subscription thing. But none of you fancyboys wanted to listen to us old foges back when we all got to decide when to move up a version, albeit with the associated smaller penalty if you skipped 2 or 3 versions.
I haven't even had the time to check out v. 2016 yet cause I've been on the Adobe learning curve (aka labyrinth) for the last 6 months. That's when these gimmicky advances become too much. When you do not use the software for sixmonths after you first didn't really have the time to peruse the entirely new UI layout. The X's that do not appear in the toolset/properties sub-panels, until hover over them, and can finally close out of them.
Honestly. I don't even feel like I am deeling with Beta revisions in these last two "releases".
Sorry. Now I gotta go download another four, 0.875-1.12 gigabyte Adobe "updates" from my 20 Gig monthly metered satellite allotment, just so nobody will come over to my shop and notice some other dumb thing I am losing productivity time over. By the time I get around to requesting Adesk to send the 2017 Media Kit, some idiot will probably have earned a bonus for dispensing with that common courtesy.
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