Have new features according to user needs, not what your marketing team thinks

There may be some improved speed if you're lucky - but if you're using linked comps and you've got PPro open, forget it - AE will become completely unusable until you quit and relaunch it...then after a few minutes, it'll be unusable again. This issue is so severe, that despite being a staunch AE fan (been using it since the CoSA days), the only reason I haven't jumped ship to othe software is that most of my clients are embedded in the Adobe CC world. PLEASE fix it!

OK so you get 100s a month, and how many do you actually do, and how much time is spent ones nobody asked for? And why are there bugs that have persisted for nearly a decade?  I'm sorry, but I'd be more patient if using AE every day didn't make me hate working as an editor

Well it's their job to maintain the software...

Timeline folders like in Photoshop and Illustrator.  There used to be a 3rd party app to do this, but your needlesly fast release cycle broke that

AE is never *really* out of beta though... 

@jenkmeister17177426 On the home window:

• Recent Projects, such is the case with other Adobe apps. 
• Tutorials related to the most expert use of After Effects from real commercial productions. Not only absolute beginner tutorials. Entice me to continue paying for Adobe for every single use case, such as compositing, colour and 3D. The forums are a great place to learn from others, but that is a poor excuse for not producing the best, most useful tutorials in the world relating to what people want to learn and promoting it in your most robust app. Adobe should be at the forefront of getting more people to understand how it competes, inside the app.

@jenkmeister17177426thanks for pointing me to the beta! Updated to the latest build yesterday and opened a shape-heavy comp, definitely noticed an improvement in timeline UI performance. Still can create some noticeable lag if I select a lot of keys and try to move them simulataneously on the timeline but overall UI perf feels snappier. Looking forward to getting this improvement in production builds. Thanks!

Can you just take a bit longer to release a stable, properly working version? This since the annual update cycle started it's just gotten slower and buggier every year.  I feel like I'm in this state of waiting for an update to fix bugs only to see what else has been broken. And working with editors outside of my company who are on different versions - nightmare! 

Bring back PRO Import on Mac. Working with Aivd editors is an entire workflow to "clean" the AFF through DaVinci then bring it into Premier because it can't understand Avid timlines and nested clips right, and THEN into After Effects. And stop making a new full-length comp for Premier Text elements pasted into aftereffects. either paste them as the raw layer or trim them down so we can see the right durations.

Second

The full type panel from Illustrator so we can use swashes and variable type as native text with scripting access to ALL properties for templating

@motionben Have you tried the AE Beta builds of late? There is a significant perf update around the Timeline and keyframe UI performance that we have out in testing.