Newest Illustrator Gradient Tool Changes, what the what? Help.

I'm having this problem too.  <sarcasm>Thank you so much, Adobe, for fixing things that aren't broken.(/sarcasm>

Is it really too much to ask that tools work the same over all the programs in the creative cloud?  Do your programmers not talk to each other?  Every new release is a cluster where menu items move for no reason and unwanted functionality "improves" things.  Jesus Christ get your act together I've been using your programs for 20+ years and this never stops.

Illustrator is the worst, it used to be an essential tool but every new update makes it obvious they've cut every possible corner with their "innovation" team, if you would even call it that.

I'm trying to draw a box and added a gradient. Now I want to go back to using a solid color instead of a gradient. Now that's impossible, you cannot click on a color swatch to replace the gradient.

So I went to create a new box and delete the box with the gradient. The new box is now also a gradient box. I cannot remove it.

I draw two more boxes and try giving a different gradient to one box, to make it different from the gradient box I am stuck with. The new gradient box, when I change the color it changes the gradient of the deselected box too!

Who designed this? It's like you got a team of engineers from a clunky old corporate software company and asked them to do both UI, UX and engineering without any regard for expertise or specialisation, because Adobe products are starting to function like a crappy broken enterprise tools that are never designed with the user in mind. Even the "tours" that you click skip, they NEVER go away. Every single time you launch Illustrator or any Adobe product these stupid tours pop up.

It is awful, why am I even here, why am I even still using this tool? It will never get fixed and no one cares on Adobe side.

im sorry BUT there is nothing 'fixed' in your latest release.

I have to force quit every time I use the gradient tool... losing work every time.

Why change something that was perfectly fine over the last 10 years

As a business Adobe is costing me so much time

Please revert back to the original

The gradient update is a real disaster, yet another Adobe innovation which truly don't work and there is now way to go back to the original tool.

PLEASE ADOBE stop these annoying updates or at least make us able to undo these updates!

THIS IS CRAZY. I finally updated, assuming that the bugs had been worked out and the radiant tool is so incredibly cumbersome now it took me 10x longer to do a simple gradient that used to take a few seconds. Plus, now there is about a 2-3 second delay as it renders the simple 2 color gradient.

Adobe, why do we remove functions that have been in place for a decade or longer? (Illustrator, photoshop, dreamweaver) These are my professional tools and this kind of stuff only makes us LESS loyal to a company that I have been spending $1000's of dollars over the past 22 years.

Sorry to rant, but this is bonkers!

Has this been fixed yet? It's killing my workflow.

I am frustrated with multiple issues with the Gradient Tool in 19 (23.0.1)

1. The above problem is horrible. It seems the gradient takes precedence over the object as if it's being seen as a style. So when that gradient is in 4 objects they are linked whether selected or not. I will always dupe an object and then edit it but my edit is applied to the unselected objects with the original gradient in some global way. It is maddening and needs to be independent in each object unless I select each object.
2. I am also having issues with "Shift Key" to constrain the gradient direction not working. I work in isometric and need my gradients to be precise and constrained to the angles I have set. IT DOES NOT WORK anymore.
3. As also mentioned above RE: dragging a new color to a spot on the gradient bar in the gradient pallet. Half the time it adds the color rather than replaces it. This is primarily an issue with the colors at the end of the bar and mostly the left side. So the round spot doesn't highlight and when you drop the color it puts it on top. And you don't know this until you move it and suddenly you have an odd color in your art that you did not expect.
4. I like to sample colors in a gradient and click them in the color pallet to make the selected object that solid color. I use to get the little color pallet below the line and fill icon. Now I don't and I have to it the clear/no fill icon and then it shows up.
5. When I am using the "Gradient Annotator" in a piece of art. It has become impossible to select the ends to stretch the annotator bar. It use to select easily but now the color circles seem so big the select and move when I am trying to select the ends of the bar.

All these things have made the Gradient tool more cumbersome and time-consuming to use. And in some cases disastrous.  Please address these issues ASAP.

The gradient tool didn't work for me too.

Not only did it refuse to let me change the direction of the gradient in a Live Paint object,

it crashed my whole system.

I've had to uninstall the damned 2019 version and revert to the more stable 2018 one (v.22.1).

Hi ,

Greeting from Adobe.

Thanks for reporting this issue.We are able to reproduce this issue in house and sent it to engineering team for further investigation.

Kindly use following workaround meanwhile for the Deselected active gradient object : "Kindly click on the gradient bar in Gradient panel before editing the active gradient" .

Regards

Ankit Goyal

Illustrator Team