Stop stuffing bloating features into core apps. Leverage the CC ecosystem to keep tools professional and lightweight.

As a professional creator using Adobe tools for 30 years, I am deeply concerned about the recent direction of Adobe Creative Cloud.

Every major update seems to aggressively force unrequested AI features and bloated UIs into core applications like Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat. This "all-in-one" approach is causing severe rendering bugs, screen freezes, and UI lockups, which completely disrupts our daily professional workflow.

We do not need every single app to become a bloated, heavy monolith. Professional tools should be like high-quality stationery—simple, reliable, and exceptionally lightweight. For instance:

* Photoshop’s Generative Expand is highly effective and practical for layout adjustment.
* InDesign’s text AI assistance, however, is entirely unnecessary for professional DTP workflows where copy is already finalized by clients.
* Illustrator’s 3D/Turntable features cause massive rendering overhead and should not be deeply integrated into a vector-focused canvas.

Since we are paying for the Creative Cloud (CC) subscription, Adobe should leverage this multi-app infrastructure rather than unifying everything into single applications.

The ideal, smart solution is to make Adobe Express a standalone, AI-focused component.
AI and heavy generative features should live inside Express. When we need them, we can simply launch Express as a plugin or a sub-app to generate assets and pull them into our core workspace. When we just want to focus on clean vector work or layout, we can close it and enjoy a lightning-fast, zero-bloat environment.

Adobe needs to stop making its tools "incompetent" by overcomplicating them. Please give creators back the sovereignty to control their own resource environments. Bring back the philosophy of modular, loosely-coupled tools that made Adobe the industry standard.

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