[kitsunesoba]

I would say that for many users, Photoshop suffers from feature bloat even more than Illustrator does.

In my personal usage, nothing that’s been added since CS1/CS2 has much meaningful impact. Heck rewinding to 7.x or even 6.x would pose only minor inconveniences.

[DrewADesign]

Sure, but in terms of broad software design industrial adoption, which is the only relevant metric when looking at Figma, those users wouldn't factor in. Anyone tinkering with old standalone versions of Adobe programs would not likely become paying Adobe Ecosystem customers regardless of how great the new Photoshop features were.

Most companies just pop users into their corporate CC site license and give them a brand new fast laptop to run it on and be done with it. It's basically SAAS at this point.

[7speter]

Except now its a malware minefield to try and acquire old adobe software

[TedDoesntTalk]

But used packqged software on eBay.