launchd sounds scary but it is not that hard to get an agent enabled. It's basically a plist file or two in the right place and a command to enable it. You can have launchd call your shell script once per minute.
I used this to good effect once to log the output of a few debug commands to text, commit that to a git repo, and move on. Then I could come back later and see what was going on before an issue happened on that system.
Regarding finding the adobe process names, you can filter output of `ps aux` based on application path or name to get a current list process IDs and kill those.
In this particular case, watch out for getting into a launchd fight, where launchd is simultaneously killing adobe processes and also relaunching them because of Adobe's own launchd registrations.
Indeed. Some component of Adobe's suite will be responsible for re-enabling them, so it's just a balance between actually using the software and disabling the background tasks.
You can customize to your needs/liking, let me know if it works for you...
[0]: https://github.com/luckman212/adobe_kill