Hi Eugene, I just had a chance to completely read through this thread, and read your message again. (I wrote my reply above in a rush, waiting for a cab.) So, sorry about repeating the bit about the wishform ;-\ that you acknowledged, and I see that Aman gave a link to the prerelease already. Are you on the prerelease? They need voices like yours there. You don't even have to download betas and test, just give your opinions when they start talking about what they're working on. They need to hear from end users, and find the forums in prerelease to be the most useful for that purpose. Here, they can't get everyone to sign a Non Disclosure Agreement, there, it's a requirement, so they're more free to talk frankly about things. But re the templates, as I mentioned on our InDesignSecrets blog (the article you linked to) in the comments, have you seen Photoshop and Illustrator? They've had that same New dialog box for months, also with free templates from Adobe Stock. It's been weird for InDesign to remain behind and out of step. 2017.1 brought ID back into the current UI. So, I'd say don't kill the messenger ... the ID engineers didn't invent this. I don't know who's in charge of the CC user interface, but it would be sweet if we could find that prerelease program. 😉 Also, Adobe opening with good-to-go free templates is again, them playing catch-up with what's happening not just w/PS and AI, but in the publishing world. From WordPress themes to Powerpoint templates to Spark Story layouts and so on, new and occasional users find templates to be a great help in producing something nice-looking quickly. I completely completely agree many of the ID templates need overhauling, and I think it'd be much better to have the programs ship with dozens of templates that *get installed* with the program, no need to connect to Adobe Stock to get them. Including a "Find more free and commercial InDesign templates on Adobe Stock" link or button would be more friendly and feel less like a marketing thing. It is a push among all of Adobe's more "mature" programs to make them more accessible to new users. You and me and lots of other seasoned users are part of their market, an important part; for sure, but like a shark that needs to keep swimming to stay alive, companies need new customers in a steady stream. They're not going to do an InDesign Lite. So, one alternative is to make it more welcoming to new users, and easy way for them to jump into the pool and swim. They can gradually learn how to tweak and how to build from scratch. To your point about the in-your-face popups, I felt the same way, but honestly, it's not that much of a bother to see them once or twice right after a new install or upgrade. They're spending tons of hours and money in creating new functions and (in the case of publish online) a whole new publishing channel. How are they supposed to get the attention of folks like us who just pay attention to the 20% of the program we use? They decided to put in pop-ups. I think they're a temporary annoyance, but I don't have a better idea. It is imperative that they get users to start experimenting with the new features, at least, otherwise they'll die from neglect. At least they stopped (as far as I can tell) the most annoying of these "surface the new features" dealies, the one where every new style automatically got added to CC Libraries and the panel would pop open. Now that's off by default. At least in mine. If anyone is still reading at this point, I hope I'm not coming off as an Adobe apologist. I rant about them with the best of them (listen to our podcast about 2017.1 if you want to hear, lol) but I wanted to offer a different perspective. Anne-Marie Concepcion no link here to remove, don't worry
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