Dear Adobe, We Need To Break Up.
My Sweet Adobe…
As a designer, I’ve been told I need to love you, to use you, and get to know your ways because of how important and influential you are. But I can't hide the way I feel anymore, I need to tell you the truth. I won't be needing you anymore. You’ve crashed on me for the last time.
In the beginning, it was new and exciting! The things you allowed me to do was unrivalled by the rest. You challenged how I thought and showed me colours I never saw before, literally! The repertoire of skills and abilities you have used to dazzle me, but now it clutters my way to a simple mocking up. I can barely recognise you anymore and I don't know who you’ve become.
I’ve worked so hard just to be with you and I will forever be thankful for helping me through my darkest design themes. But you just have too many walls, the things we can do are hidden behind drop-down after drop-down and I find myself frustrated and confused by you now. Traversing the labyrinth of your layer lists has wasted almost as much time as waiting for you to update where you say you've changed, but its the same old act with you.
It feels I need to be some sort of mind-reading expert to know what your thinking when I try to deselect an artboard and I can’t simply use the ESC key. Or for that matter, how I need to know all the rest of your silly shortcuts and tricks just so I can make a simple logo or cat gif.
It's gotten to the point where I have to embarrassingly ask my friends advice on how to deal with you. Sadly, most say I need to just deal with you because you're worth the weird subscription. Sometimes, I need to get help from a professional on “Youtube or something” because even my friends don't know what to do. I can't stand it anymore, love shouldn't be this hard and neither should be masks, seriously.
I'm sorry to say, but there is another and they just… get me. They are from Bohemia. They are elegant, powerful, and strong like a diamond. They won’t play games with me because it seems they actually care for me. They actually change who they are when they say they have something new for me.
I don't need to pay an arm and a leg just to be with them, just once, and they are forever mine. They actually get along with my friends and allow me to InVision the Principle of true love.
The harshest truth is, they don't make me pull my hair out but rather let me be who I want to be, which is actually being productive today. I know you’re trying to be better, but I'm too hurt to pay another arbitrary fund to be “certified” to even use you.
This is goodbye my dear Adobe, I hope you find someone who can deal with all of your flaws and love you for who you really are. Please work on yourself and get ahold of me when you've made some changes to your bizarre ways.
The one you lost,
-Aaron G
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