[pixelrevision]

Photoshop is Adobe’s flagship application so it’s probably not what you’d want to look at as a comparison. I’d look at the current status of all the products they bought from Macromedia (which were all wildly popular at the time) to get an idea of where people’s concerns lie.

[matwood]

Did the Macromedia products die because of Adobe or because the market shifted? The iPhone, somewhat famously, never ran Flash for example. Things like Dreamweaver and ColdFusion were cool at the time, but fell out of favor with accelerating web standards.

[snowwrestler]

Accelerating web standards are not why Dreamweaver fell out of favor. Adobe could have accelerated Dreamweaver to keep up, but it didn’t. They abandoned it and it fell behind.

Same with Fireworks, which did what Figma does in a more basic and client-side way. Again: Adobe let it fall behind the marketplace and that is why it failed.

Flash, ironically, did advance and is used today in professional animation. Bojack Horseman (for example) was animated in Flash.