Every single update should not change the basic fundamental functions of AI.
I am someone who is learning and having to relearn when just getting the hang of how to use this app comfortably really irks me.
In addition, i have an uncountable amount of talented peers who use this software and they do not even understand how to work with many of the updates.

A huge example i can give:
Why can you not drag a photo to make it smaller or larger anymore?

Also, why can the user not add FX to fonts and see what it does without having to press enter.

Just letting you know I just updated AI and it just crashed and the project file I was working on (that I had saved to two separate external hard drives) is nowhere to be found now, it didn't show up in my recent files and now I have searched where it was saved on both hard drives and it is completely gone. Awesome. So I guess my request is that if illustrator crashes make it to where it at least doesn't delete the project completely, and autosave backup would be nice but I'd really rather not have to start projects over from scratch bc the project file gets completely erased. Thanks.

AI needs to be able to keep up with AE and CA, when I make a puppet for those apps in AE, AE becomes overwhelmed and hopelessly slow. It neb
AI needs to be able to keep up with AE and CA, when I make a puppet for those apps in AI, AI becomes overwhelmed and hopelessly slow. It needs to be much more powerful so my workflow is reasonable. Also if I have to rasterize everything to help these apps handle the burden, there should be an undo button for rasterized bits for editing purposes. But there's a huge discrepancy between what these apps are supposed to be able to do, and what they actually can do.

In between bugs I still try to make something in Illustrator, and now this happened:

1. I hit Shift + W on the keyboard to select the width tool.


2. Instead of the width tool cursor, the cursor became a black rectangle.


3. I noticed both the Selection tool and width tool were selected in the tools window.


4. I dicided to click on an Anchor anyway, and the screen turned black. The video signal went off, monitor went on standby. The HDD/SSD light on the PC was flashing nonstop. PC did not respond to anyting (I think, but I could not see because there was no visual).


5. Working file was recovered after reboot, that's nice.

Win10, 32GB ram, 8core i7, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB, HighDPI scaling 200% (4k)

Illustrator's anti-aliasing is very dirty and very-very dark. I personally work mostly on icons in Illustrator and the reason I avoid the application for say simple UI is that the result will be dirty. If I import my illustration from AI to Photoshop or Adobe XD - the whole layout will become much cleaner, lighter on preview and on export from there.

Recently I've encountered a situation when my colleague had a small circle, and for this circle, the stroke's been defined as black and the fill was transparent. In Illustrator it looked like the circle hadn't a hole in its center (because the stroke was wide and the circle itself was small) but in any other application (Ps and even Safari and Sketchapp when exported as .svg) the hole was big and obvious.

See, I can't show Illustrator's export results to my clients, especially on pitches: my layouts will look dirtier than other persons' work. It will look cleaner even if I open illustrator's file in Photoshop and export from there. But it solves the problem on an export stage and not when I'm editing a file. So it's a real problem.

It would be lovely if you implement in Illustrator the same anti-aliasing mechanism as you already have in Adobe XD or After Effects.