@Nikolas - the squeaky wheel gets the grease, right?

@Nikolas, yes, they introduced a new simplify tool which is completely unusable!

you guys talk like illustrator is getting a ton of new features or something...

Agreed

"PLEASE : this should be the next update and only update. NO MORE FEATURES TILL THIS IS COMPLETE."

Any update on this, Adobe?

PLEASE : this should be the next update and only update. NO MORE FEATURES TILL THIS IS COMPLETE.

@Luis and @Anonymous I also purchased all three Serif/Affinity apps during their half off sale. I cut my personal Adobe subscription. I still use Adobe at work but have found there are some high complexity vector files that cannot handle and that Affinity Designer handles with ease. I will say though that the biggest leg up Adobe Illustrator has over Designer is the shape builder tool. For logos and character illustrations it is a huge time saver... but when it comes to uber complex vector files like large Open Street vector maps, Designer thrives while Adobe derps. With that said, I enjoy both sets of software. They both have their strengths and weaknesses... and one costs far less.

@Luis I actually took steps toward what you mentioned and purchased all 3 of the Serif/Affinity apps during the holiday bundle offer and got them less than paying Adobe for 2 months of service. It's not a direct replacement but will be soon.

Adobe is slept about Illustrator performance improvements... Time to stop paying and move to Affinity.

@Will Carvalho. exact information? did not provide such information for adobe illustrator 2021? Shouldn't it introduce it as innovation?

Absolutely Essential in 2020!

Please get Illustrator 2021 to take advantage of Multi Thread CPU's. It should use all CPU and RAM that you set in preferences, just like Photoshop or Premiere.

Using a Mac Mini 2018 I7 with 64GB of Ram, Catalina, and a 2015 iMac I7 32GB of Ram, Mojave, and only Illustrator does not take advantage of it all.

5K imac ai cc 2020 Overprint mode very very sloow, help Adobe help.

Rezalet...

"between Intel and AMD the challenge is who produces processors with fewer nanometers and more cores .... who 10 cores, who 12, who 16 cores .... "

technology advancements are fuelled by competition in the marketplace, the problem with illustrator is the only real competition they face is piracy, so we have a application with 12 different adobe background binaries running before you even open illustrator! If adobe put as much time into rewriting illustrator for multithreading as they do into battling against adobezii.com with EVERY SINGLE REVISION.. then it would have been completed years ago!

Pirates gonna pirate, is it really worth all that effort to have the latest version uncrackable for that two or so weeks before it is cracked again? Maybe if they earned the $79/month they're asking for, more people would choose to pay it.

Support for multiple cores is essential for illustrator. There isn’t any point in having a fast multi core machine if the software can’t use it. The downside is after using Affinity designer - which is a great piece of software I still have to supply my clients with illustrator files which it can’t produce. EPS or SVG don’t translate very well to be usable. I’m hoping that Adobe will take the multi core issue seriously and when they have to create a re-write for Mac silicon build this in as standard. I won’t hold my breath though.

I have switched to affinity designer too, it just works. Especially with heavy files.
The problem is the rest of the industry doesn't seem to follow and I still need illustrator to open downloaded stock graphics...

SO the comment re: affinity, I'm giving it a try. Something is different, could it be multi-threading with upto 96% cpu usage? Anyway, it's much, much more usable on complex files. The toast will have to wait.
Early days as its a learning curve and I have to look at compatability to ensure that illustrator users can import files without loss, but looking promising.

And all for a little over 1 months adobe subscription.

Who knows, after 3.5 years of asking for artboard rotation in Illustrator (the top request for quite some time) they've finally changed the status to "started" on it a few days ago.

So there is hope one day we'll get Illustrator to look beyond one core.

Maybe there is some good news in store at Adobe Max

I would move to Affinity in a heartbeat. I just need the industry to move along with me.
Im tired of the performance hits year after year. You need a NASA server farm to run Illustrator and funny thing is, you couldn't even cause only 1 CPU core.