What's wrong with Acrobat Pro?

Hello and good day!

To whom this may seem a rant - it is one. The Acrobat DC seems to me like an unwanted child of Adobe. Why? It integrates in the Cloud client, but it's not managed the same way as other apps. The most obvious is that the Cloud client offers you no updates for the Acrobat DC. Instead Acrobat has its own update service running.

The reason for this post is something else. Since a specific version - I don't know which one - I get DDE errors all the time. OK, something I can live with. But now, quite suddenly, it stopped working in an action to batch-password files . It complains about user permission. Yes,could also be a Windows thing. Opening files the usual way and saving them is no problem.

OK, so I thought I should perhaps re-install it. There comes rant reason nr. 1. The official installer has no options. Furthermore, different to other Adobe apps which live on their own and don't interfere, Acrobat integrates unwantedly and unaskedly into various other software, such as the Chrome browser. Rant reason nr. 2. It should be considered a crime to modify alien software. However, knowing all that I searched for an offline installer and found it. I deactived the PDF maker integration in the installer - but guess what happened! It did install something in Chrome, though. An extension. WTF?! What else has been messed up by the installer?

Next, the original user permissions problem wasn't solved, so I thought "let's try to run Acrobat as administrator" if that's what it needs. Said and done, but it made it even worse. With that being set, Acrobat won't start at all anymore or at least not open the GUI. Rant reason nr. 3. Perhaps the installer only needs a system restart, but it didn't say so. Later, before an actual system restart, it worked when staring the executable directly, not from start menu. With the administrator mode, it could at least run the above mentioned action, but still would complain about insufficient user permissions.

Acrobat is so much different to the other apps. It acts like it doesn't belong to Adobe anymore. The entire look and feel is also completely different, the concept, the behavior. It would also install and run background services you don't need and if you need them, you should be asked. Update service, Collaboration Synch? Why? The last one would even be put into auto-start!