Every Update Seems To Be Getting Worse

[eolapets]

Come on Adobe Animate team. Its really crappy to have the updates just make things worse. Here's a few problems I'm experiencing:

Vector graphics fidelity seems to be having issues when copying + pasting. Seems like new points are being added to vectors or that there is some sort of snapping that is turned on by default.

Cannot resize items to something less than an inch in a document that's units are inches.

Converting thick Lines to Fills on a complex shape is chaotic. 

Filters added to large bitmaps corrupts the GPU/image and the exporting process somehow.

Filters/Blendmode effects on timelines can become "sticky" and sometimes am unable to remove a Blendmode from a symbol. Sometimes I have to open up a new document and just start over.

Random freezes and exitting. I can't tell you how many files named RECOVER_xxx.fla I have on my hard drive. Seems to be when you do anything that involves doing a move or a resize of an object on a timeline.

I feel dumb being charged for a product that is making my life a living hell. You should at least make it possible to download a stable version of a previous Adobe Animate (or Adobe Flash).

[ClayUUID]

Animate 2018 was the last good version. Though Adobe has delisted it, it will still validate through Creative Cloud if you can find the standalone installer (Animate_18_LS20.exe).

[n. tilcheff · Accepted solution]

Links to v.18 are still available here:   https://prodesigntools.com/adobe-cc-2018-direct-download-links.html

They are all legit and point to adobe's servers.

Scroll down to the table with downloads.

Keep the installer.