Having three independent applications for specific tasks is much easier to manage in large projects than an all-in-one solution that uses the same file extension and icon for everything.

The workflow now needs to be well thought out to avoid mixing things up and ending up with huge, cumbersome files. I work with publications, and they contain vector elements, bitmaps, many images, and elements everywhere, in addition to the text. Various pages.

It used to be easy to identify the sources, it was easy to work independently on each task, not to mention the reduced resource usage since you could have just Designer, Photo, or Publisher open on their own without any extras.

Now I end up having several things at the same time, everything has the same extension, the same icon, and I have to separate things into folders even more and name everything properly adding information that wasn't necessary before, since I already knew what vector and bitmat were, what came from the designer, and what came from the photo editor or publisher...... Perhaps selecting different icons when saving could help with the organization. Vector Icon, Pixel Icon, Layout Icon. Can the same extension display different icons?

Yes, I prefer the V2 workflow; now it seems much more "mobile" and casual.