your default workspace is completely off point of the tools illustrators need close at hand
hey, folks, I've been using Illustrator continuously (and intensely) since 1987. Every time I make a transition to a new Mac and load a fresh copy of the Creative Suite, I'm frustrated by the task of rebuilding the essential palette of tools that need to be close at hand in Illy for max productivity — color, stroke, character, align + pathfinder, layers . . . your out-of-the-box defaults have it all wrong. Makes me wonder: do any of you people actually use this product for making stuff in the day to day? And good god, please stop with the scrubby zoom default. Zoom to a marquee is SO much more accurate and efficient!
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and now I'm finding (a couple hours later), in Illy 2021, that it looks like it will be impossible to set up a single-column palette on the side of a cinema-24 display that includes colors, stroke attributes, character attributes, and layering in the same config I've been using for 12+ years. wtf were you people thinking? Have absolutely none of you ever worked at a drafting board desk where all your tools were immediately at hand, and experienced the productivity that enables?