Retype not allowing to edit text

Hi. I’m here because I wanted to make sure I wasn’t misunderstanding as well. To make matters worse, there are several videos and resources online as I searched, still teaching you about a feature that no longer exists. It’s a shame to learn that I'm not actually doing anything wrong, and that this feature was removed. It’s exactly what I was looking for. And the corporate canned response. Oof. Not a great look.

I figured with generative this and creative that, this would be a pretty easy task for AI now, but i guess not? 

You can just tell us it’s a liability around font ownership or some bullshit. It’s okay. We are very used to being disappointed by our corporate overlords by now. 

So Adobe, you took a phenomenal feature and replaced it with a useless one? Fantastic. There is ZERO point to the retype tool now. 

What a shame, it was the only use I saw for Retype. They called it Re-Type for a reason, didn't they?

The retype tool, in its beta form (i.e., where you could edit vectorized text), was a better and more useful tool than what is currently available. Please fix it! Putting it in Photoshop is cool, but I think graphic designers who use Illustrator would appreciate and use this tool more.