As someone who uses Illustrator daily as the vector illustration tool it's supposed to be, I have to say the entire raster based focus of this overhaul seems incredibly worrying.
I'm not saying an effect with Substance materials and proper shading is useless in itself, but this does seem to follow the overall trend of Adobe not improving or fixing core functionalities of their software and making something flashy instead.
As someone who uses Illustrator daily as the vector illustration tool it's supposed to be, I have to say the entire raster based focus of this overhaul seems incredibly worrying.
I'm not saying an effect with Substance materials and proper shading is useless in itself, but this does seem to follow the overall trend of Adobe not improving or fixing core functionalities of their software and making something flashy instead.