Well, I tried to stay out of this conversation, I promise I did....
Bob...
"...these air-gapped, USB-blocked, locked-config, security-theatre sites can easily amount to assured failure."
Snark about "security theatre" aside, there are real users out here for whom these are real constraints, and not because our bosses and their bosses are idiots. You're not the first to make dismissive noises about it, but not all of us are freelancers, consultants, or small business owners who have control over our own computing infrastructure or data security environments. I can't swear my company's approach to security is ideal -- I am, after all, a mere editor/desktop publisher, and not a sysadmin or network engineer -- but I'm quite sure our need for security is real: We have not only a fiduciary duty to protect our intellectual property, but also a legal obligation to protect a large fraction of the information I publish from disclosure outside authorized channels.
Honestly, much as I would like to have easy control over my virtual workspace, in a large corporate environment, allowing individual end-users' machines unmoderated access to outside servers, or allowing individuals to take company data home on thumb drives, would be irresponsible. People could get fired; people could go to jail.
"Heck, Adobe has to have a special process just to manage license activation for such clients."
Another way of saying this is that Adobe needs to have ways to serve the legitimate needs of a particular class of actual customers. Maybe you think Adobe's response should be, "Screw 'em: If they can't 'phone home' for activation and updates, let 'em use Word"... but I hope that never becomes the answer, because I love Frame and would be bereft if I couldn't use it anymore.
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