Minor bugfixes are not enough to prove that Adobe will work on a future, full fledged release of Animate, especially considering they have been radio silent on a new version for nearly a year now.
It astonishes and baffles me that Character Animator, a vastly inferior product, continues to recieve new versions where most Animate gets is just a bug fix here and there. I don't really know anyone who prefers Character Animator over Animate, and if someone does, they are just lazy individuals who use AI for everything... which sounds like the demographic Adobe are trying to appease to...
Considering this has almost been a whole year of posts now, and considering the fact we have never heard back from Adobe, despite promise after promise that something will give, I have no doubts that Animate will be discontinued in just a few weeks, or maybe even the next year or two.
Again, minor bugfixes are not enough to prove the existence of a new full fledged release being in the works. If a major release was in the works, the prerelease forums would've been updated more regularly than it has been.
The most we can do is either live with a ticking timebomb of a software or throw it away and move on in favour of alternatives that will always be better supported than Animate.
I think this shouldn't be too surprising considering Adobe has been pushing Animate to the wayside again and again and again. Not to mention how updates since about late 2019 have been increasingly getting worse and worse with the many half-baked features nobody really uses.
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