Acrobat is becoming less and less useful

Editing a PDF (adding a couple text boxes and importing my signature) used to take 30 seconds.

Now it’s a good 15 minutes of almost screaming at my computer. I’m in a complete f*cking rage. It should not be this hard. I can’t even describe how absolutely insanely stupid it is now.

As you can tell, this is not a question. It’s feedback. Acrobat is just getting worse and worse. I can’t just open a PDF without a thousand popups telling me about the latest AI features.

I DON’T CARE. DISPLAY DOCUMENTS AND LEAVE ME ALONE, that’s all I want Acrobat to do. I do not need any new features. I haven’t needed any features for probably 10 years. Let me add text boxes without having to re-re-re-re-re-choose EVERY SINGLE TIME what font and color and style I want to use.

I just can’t articulate right now. I know I’m supposed to calm down and then post something smarter with a cool head, but by the time I calm down about this sh*t, I just want to never think about it ever again.

But then I need to sign another document a few days later.

I know there have to be other PDF editors out there. Surely Acrobat is not the only one in 2026. I really should find one I guess.

If there is any way I can revert to the Acrobat from 4-5 years ago, PLEASE TELL ME HOW.

Sincerely,

An Adobe CC subscriber since 2012.