Why is Adobe ignoring their AE-customers? Who is responsible?

[Konstantin3527682920jm]

there are plenty of issues with AE and there is a lot of frustration in the comnunity about AE being just not the tool a modern motion graphic / composition software could be!

basically since years.

seeing that other application of adobe are going well (Photoshop e.g. has integrated AI very well) it seems like that the people at adobe in charge for AE are really not making their jobs!

this becomes very, very frustrating if you have to use that software on daily basis.

so who is in charge? who is responsible for annoying a whole industry?

there must be managers who are really not doing their job! or who have complety taken the wrong decision for years! who are they?

[Mylenium]

It's the usual mix of different factors you will find everywhere at Adobe and personally I think even PS is just as bad. Some of it can be rationalized at an abstract level like development cost and time and not breaking established workflows, but of course they've simply fallen behind in many areas. Regrettably it's not going to change, though. Existing users are loathe to switch software and new users are simply not knowledgeable enough to see this mess. That and of course the subscription is still dirt cheap by comparison even if you only use two or three programs. That's why Adobe has millions and millions of users and as long as they pay their money, they can keep this up for the next hundred years. It would take a mass exodus where hundreds of thousands of users switch to other software in a few months for them to even care and that's just not going to happen.

Mylenium