Is Illustrator v30.1 on macOS considered usable, or are users expected to work around basic input bugs now?

What ever you do, don’t move to 30.2.1 - It updated behind the scenes yesterday and due to other issues I was forced to restart my system. And when I reopened my 6 working files all my text was converted into text boxes and moved onto other artboard, all my tab deliniations were shifted around and will NOT return to normal.

I force reinstalled 30.1 and somehow lost all my workplace settings as well (why? it was an existing default workspace from the past 15 years!!) and there appear to be no equivalent standard.

To make things worse, since I had that restart, all those files were saved with the errors so I now have to rebuild 6 multipage documents on my own time.

We DO NOT NEED the “AI improvements” Anyone that does anything worthwhile with these programs should NOT need a crutch. it does nothing than bloat the program, introduces even more bugs and honestly doesn’t work well.

(don’t get me started on Photoshops 10GB scratch disk for 3mb file saving)

I just updated to version 30.2.1. After the update, Adobe still keeps aggressively pushing all kinds of AI features every time I launch it. Meanwhile, the basic three-finger drag to move objects is still glitching and jumping all over the place.

It’s honestly unbelievable that something this fundamental can be ignored like this.

I think I’ve reached my conclusion — Adobe just isn’t worth subscribing to anymore.

This thread clearly isn’t going to change anything, but at least it can stand as a record of Adobe’s current attitude. A company whose software I’ve used for over 20 years… and this is what it’s turned into.

I’ve been encountering crashes in the latest version of illustrator which has caused no end of problems . I've begun saving my work every time I change something. It’s a joke and we’re paying for this mediocre rubbish.  I’m working on a Macbook pro with M4 pro chip it shouldn’t be crashing this frequently. It’s not even taxing work I’m doing.

I tested that on a Macbook M1. Could only reproduce the jumping when I dragged the object into a panel (the strokes panel for instance). That is to be expected, it’s happening when dragging into a panel using the normal method of dragging as well.

I kinda want to keep talking about this, because honestly there’s just this built-up frustration sitting in my head.

What really pisses me off is that Adobe has let an A1-level bug like this drag on for over a month. It’s like your car’s steering can’t properly stay centered, and the manufacturer tells you, “Just buy a new car,” or “Try steering with your foot instead of your hands.” And it’s not like this lasted a few days — it’s been a whole month.

These days I barely even do design work anymore, so in theory I shouldn’t care this much. But it still feels completely unreasonable. This is such a low-level, basic failure that it simply should not be happening in the first place.

I really try not to be a petty person, but this thing has basically started to etch itself into my brain. The truth is, I’m not even a designer anymore — my daily tools are VS Code, Postman, Docker, the terminal. And yet, for the past week or two, I’ve been checking almost every day to see if there’s an update.

I guess that’s how the frustration slowly piled up.

Illustrator v30.1 on macOS has a serious bug where objects jump unpredictably when moved with three‑finger drag, making it unreliable for production work. While workarounds like using two‑finger gestures, a mouse, or rolling back to an earlier version exist, they force users to change established workflows. Until Adobe issues a fix, this version is best avoided if you rely heavily on trackpad gestures, since the bug goes beyond a “minor issue” and directly impacts usability. 

​@ppooooqq Awwww… the track pad...I am so old school I still need to use a mouse. My students laugh at me when I try and use the track pad on their Macs!