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February 28, 2026
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Stop making apps worse

  • February 28, 2026
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Is Adobe ever going to stop making their apps worse? Every f* day I'm spending more time troubleshooting than working. The slowdown is literally costing me money because your business plan seems to be

 

"Let's justify the subscription model and abusive cancellation practices by rushing out a new version every year"

 

Your priorities are an absolute joke! People don't want crappy new AI tools that slow down the whole app, they want reliability! I know this isn't how you report a bug, but what does it even matter any more? If you actually did fix a bug there's countless more and you will never fix them before moving them along to the next major release. 

 

I'm struggling to do my job because you can't do yours. After nearly 20 years of being an Adobe customer I cannot wait to leave this ridiculous company and its staggering incompetence behind

    3 replies

    Inspiring
    March 2, 2026

    Agreed. I can’t even begin to describe the issues I am having with AE 2026 because there are just so many. It’s mose unstable version in years. Trying to work in an ACEScg project is almost impossible - every just breaks.

    jamesmite
    Participating Frequently
    March 1, 2026

    I understand the frustration — when tools slow down or become unstable, it directly impacts productivity and income. Many users value reliability and performance over new features. It might help to share specific system details and issues in a formal bug report so they can be properly tracked. Hopefully, stability and optimization become a stronger priority moving forward.

    jefubbudu
    Inspiring
    March 2, 2026

    How about:

    • A proper EXR importer so we can import our CGI?
    • Deep image support so we can use modern 3D effects?
    • porting all those CPU effects to GPU?
    • Maybe make different filetypes process at the same speed, consodering internally they're uncompressed frames in RAM?
    • Actually integrating mocha's tracking into the tracking tool?
    • Allow I/O of 3D tracking data, implement camera reconstruction, linked undistort and redistort?
    • I/O of LUT's in standard formats? 
    • More output filetypes, like gif, webm, and so on?
    • How about making the software actually process things faster? AE renders a similar scene to nuke at 1/50th the speed. In nuke, it's a heavy file when a render takes more than 5 minutes.
    • Actual multithreading. None of this "duplicating the render process on each core for each frame" like we need to render the 5th frame before the 2nd.
    • Have the UI claim the last core of the CPU, so as not to interact with renders, to reduce crashes. 
    • Lean into the film-like editing interface to make sime film-like editing effects such as halation from lower layers.
    • fix rotopaint and camera stabilization. They barely even work without throwing errors or freezing.

     

    • maybe just build a new AE which is node based and uses stacked blend mode/over merges with stacked effects between them in the background but the default UI is our familiar layers with effects for fast edits.

    We're angry because most of these have been requested for upwards of a decade, but all we got was AI slop, insults, and unethical changes to TOS. I had to drop AE from my professional workflow because I've lost over $8000 in contracts and a repeat customer because it's too slow and expensive. Do you know how demoralizing it is to have your contract terminated 3 weeks in and go unpaid just because After Effects can't render some fancy dailies in under 40 minutes, or increases the subscription cost, or the lisence allows adobe to train AI on work under NDA?

    Participant
    February 28, 2026

    i was going to ask if there is a way using the keyboard to confirm an expression you wrote on a property (AE) without having to click with the mouse outside of the expression window. not being able to do that seems ridiculous to me. I’m used to hitting “esc” or “return”, but “esc” removes you from the property while removing whatever expression edit you made, and “return” just adds another line. But reading your comment really stikes to the core of what I’m feeling most of the time whenever I open any Adobe product.