Gradient Along Stroke

Every company that does AI now employs some sort of fancy gradient effect and not having a gradient follow a stroke natively is a huge pain point in a lot of my current workflows. Using a ton of hacky workarounds or third party tools to get this done when it should be a simple effect. This is already several years late, lets get it done Adobe!   

This is definitely needed!  The current "Gradient" Stroke is a joke.  If I wanted a gradient that completely ignored the path of my stroke, I would just use the Gradient Ramp effect on the layer.

I'd be happy for this, and it feels like groundwork has already been laid, since we have Taper and Wave operators with seemingly-similar behaviors. 

A great big yes please for this one 🙂

While you can kinda do this natively with text animators and a whole load of these ................................ tracked tightly, that's not good enough - it should be in shape layers with the ability to use repeaters, dashes, tapers, and trimming that are impossible or harder to make work with text animators.

And, sure, there are third-party options like Red Giant's Trapcode 3D Stroke which can do this, but it should be native!

This has been a long time coming, please please please!