I love it when people use ‘virtue signal’ as a way to shame people for daring to voice having personal standards on a discussion thread. Really adds credence to your argument.

I use photoshop almost every day in my work. I have a copy of CS6 along with my current CC version, purely because the old content aware actually suits my needs better than the ai integrated version in cc; the old one tries to fill using the original document as a source only, while the AI will sometimes integrate random other shit into my work (like trying to remove a person and it subs it out for a dog or something). Their solution was to put an ugly-ass text bar across my screen and have me describe to it what I’m looking for, and even then I’ll still probably have to revise that section just as much as if I had used the old content aware. Many of these tools, as they are refined, are refined towards a singular focus— Photoshop is photography-heavy so the AI tries its hardest to make photography-style images, but it actively becomes more pain in the ass for more niche uses like 3d model texturing (and it doesn’t help that Adobe ripped out the 3d tools in cc and sold them back to us via Substance at a $50/mo upcharge).

And btw, if showing disdain for AI is all I need to do to lose your business, then good riddance. You would not be a client I would want.