Why does it feel like Acrobat gets worse with every update?

Every single update is worse.  A lot of people need to be fired.

Something so simple turned into a disaster - Acrobat reader used to just work but now everything including rotating a page needs a subscription. is it just me or is that too much to ask? 
Reading doesn't need AI - I just need it to (pretty much) read but can't do a single damn thing. I have installed a 3rd party reader on my mac which does way more. Sorry to say but I can't stand this anymore. 

This is from an article about Google (by Ed Zitron), but it fits the current Adobe development quite well:

This is what I mean when I talk about the Rot Economy — the illogical, product-destroying mindset that turns the products you love into torturous, frustrating quasi-tools that require you to fight the company’s intentions to get the service you want.

It’s because the people running the tech industry are no longer those that built it.

This is the result of taking technology out of the hands of real builders and handing it to managers at a time when “management” is synonymous with “staying as far away from actual work as possible.” And when you’re a do-nothing looking to profit as much as possible, you only care about growth.

Because it does... Updates are now a source of problems, it seems, not solutions or improvements. The last update to Acrobat and Reader broke the functionality of all form fields, for example.

And hear hear about the AI stuff! Adobe, get the core functionality working properly before you move on to more advanced (and mostly useless, in my opinion) features.