Looks like the last thing from Adobe on this is "Need more information". That is rubbish – you just need to fix it.

I have now requested updates to Illustrator graph tool several times but still no real promise of work on this. Right now I am creating graphs in Apple Pages and copying as PDF into Illustrator to convert to CMYK for print. In Pages I can resize the graph to fit a rectangle the correct size for my InDesign layout. WHY can't Adobe get this right? Datylon is a little too complex for day to day use. The Apple Pages graphs do almost everything I need quickly and easily – and the app is free on my Mac. Come on Adobe. Get this fixed.

I first tried Illustrator over 23 years ago, along with Macromedia Freehand. I quickly chose Freehand over Illustrator for it's styles and graphic capabilities. Freehand had a great graphing tool - you could create a graph, then size it to fit your space (important in the newspaper business) and then tweak it without ungrouping it.

In 2005, Adobe bought Macromedia to get your hands on Flash. When you killed Freehand as competition, I was forced for years to create graphs in Illustrator, then ungroup them (destroying the ability to do more than minor edits).

As I watched Illustrator grow as a tool, I kept hoping that you would eventually get around to the graph tool. Sadly, it's the one area of Illustrator that you never touched. Now that I've left the newspaper graphics business, I don't use the tool anymore. But it still saddens me that it continues to be the same poor tool that I rejected 23 years ago.

For the sake of your future users, please give it an extreme makeover. Don't make us buy an extra plugin for something you should have fixed years ago.

I beta tested the Datylon plugin. Pretty good BUT doesn't do some of the great stuff promised a few years ago at MAX. and, unfortunately, a bit expensive for me right now as well. I remember Adobe having a technology preview a couple of years ago that also filled me with hope but it got cancelled never to progress any further. Not good enough Adobe,

Adobe might be allowing Datylon to access code and perform R&D as a beta startup just to measure success and work the bugs outside its house name. Should this prove to fall short, it can be fixed there until it does. If/when adoption has reached a certain mass, Adobe could "acquire" this into their interface, clean it up visually. A bolt-on solution isn't ideal in a "homogenized" Adobe world. But it's awesome to have another option in the meantime.

I'm frustrated that it's another tool I need to pay for though when we're already paying an arm and a leg for Adobe CC.

Thurid & Deller. I've actually been using it for a few months, and really like it. Not without its own bugs, but a thousand times better than anything adobe has given us.

Theresa, I just saw Thurid's comment and agree. I downloaded the 7-day trial from Datylon and purchased a full year subscription 2 days into it. It basically does everything you wish Illustrator could have been doing for 10+ years and all inside of Illustrator. I highly recommend it.

Theresa, Datylon just released an add-on for Illustrator that gives an improved graph tool. I haven't tried it out yet, but I don't think that Adobe will work on this anymore.

I see that a lot of housekeeping has been going on in the uservoice. Does anyone think that someone at Adobe might actually respond to this three year old request?

Datylon is offering an advanced dataviz extension for Illustrator - check it out at https://datylon.com/graph

Datylon is developing a plug-in for Adobe Illustrator to create advanced graphs and charts in a very efficient way. Product Management of Adobe Illustrator is giving us full support in this.
We recently released a stable Beta version and are interested in users who try out our tool and give us feedback. You can download Datylon Graph for free at https://datylon.com/graph.
Don't hesitate! We plan to release a first customer version by end of January2020.

Datylon is developing a plug-in for Adobe Illustrator to create advanced graphs and charts in a very efficient way. Most of the features asked for in this thread are covered by our plug-in "Datylon Graph". Product Management of Adobe Illustrator is giving us full support in this.
We recently released a stable Beta version and are interested in users who try out our tool and give us feedback. You can download Datylon Graph for free at https://datylon.com/graph.
Don't hesitate! We plan to release a first customer version by end of January2020.

Datylon is developing a plug-in for Adobe Illustrator to create advanced graphs and charts in a very efficient way. Most of the features asked for in this thread are covered by our plug-in "Datylon Graph". Product Management of Adobe Illustrator is giving us full support in this.
We recently released a stable Beta version and are interested in users who try out our tool and give us feedback. You can download Datylon Graph for free at https://datylon.com/graph.
Don't hesitate! We plan to release a first customer version by end of January2020.

This tool needs a major overhaul. I dread making charts and graphs because they are so tedious and unintuitive. There need to be ways to edit the design and look of a graph prior to ungrouping—and thus, rendering your chart uneditable.

Working with the graphing tools is like digital time-travel. It's frustrating and often forces you to come up with workarounds. It was old-fashioned many years ago. Both interface and functionality is in need of a complete overhaul. I hope it happens before my retirement - in 5-6 years time.

Hello

I would like chart creation and update function including being able to update a link to an Excel file to be either in Indesign or Illustrator please

Hadn't realized the limitations of this tool until now. I'm unable to align the object with anything or resize by specifying dimensions. It would seem natural to be able to style the graph (a pie in this instance) with the many tools illustrator provides, but the inability to use even the most basic on the graph object is frustrating.

If you're asking it like that, it'll probably be a separate app.
Infographics are marketable, Illustrator is kind of old school.

But it'll be definitely better as a part of Illustrator, that's a more natural workflow.

This really needs to be kept in Illustrator. I really don't need another tool where I ask, why can't [insert the name of tool here] just do this?!?

Really hope at Adobe MAX 2019, Adobe will announce that Project Lincoln is now part of Illustrator.