[karaterobot]

They were losing the battle for the design software market, so they bought the competition. The less innovative company bought the more innovative company. Of course it would reduce innovation.

[danielmarkbruce]

Some people argue this acquisition opens the door for a new company to make another, newer, better version of Figma because Adobe could screw it up.

Ie, they are driving innovation by killing the leader.

[rvense]

They did this before with at least Aldus and Macromedia.

[firecall]

although they genuinely killed Quark Xpress by making a better product with Indesign.

Whilst Quark totally dropped the ball and failed to innovate and update for modern MacOS.

Quark had as good as a 100% of the market before InDesign came along.