Update Horrors

The latest Acrobat DC is HORRIBLE! The usability has suffered. Acrobat Express is a major annoyance as it keeps injecting itself into my workflow uninvited. The document editing is more crippled than ever before (a major requirement here). And even scanning multiple documents has gone from 1-click per subsequent pages to 5-6-clicks per page!  

I am all too reminded of Microsoft's introduction of the "ribbon" to Office: never needed, never wanted, created major user problems, and they go and give themselves an award for how they are clever designers. Such chutzpah. 

Acrobat has, from the beginning, been a "productivity tool." I have supported it since its beginnings. My experience with this "DC" version is causing me to rethink my use of Adobe Acrobat tools.  

Guys, there is such a thing as "good enough." There is also an engineering principle called "KISS: Keep it simple, stupid." When you try to add too much to a tool so that it becomes less useful, you will look for a better tool. And a "better tool" is one that is more useful (i.e. efficient and reliable).