[oktwtf]

What else should have been done? They are just named references to an external library. Now the library is no longer there due to licensing and a perpetual sans-ownership of the software. Seems like null data.

Okay, what if they allow you to see the exact mix of that previous swatch so you can easily migrate away from the Pantone library entirely. That seems like a pretty poor way to handle a business relationship with the likes of Pantone, there would be 0 incentive at that point for someone to explore that (needed?) license on their own.

[stavros]

They should have replaced the named references with the color they refer to. The value is in the reference, not the color. Pantone sells being able to say "Very Peri" in your PSD and having that being the same whether you're printing it, painting it, manufacturing it, whatever.

Replacing it with #AABBCC doesn't hurt them, because there's no matching that can be done any more across materials.