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Dreams are one thing. People here are tired of fantasies and wishful thinking. Looking at the problem here - Adobe treating customers like crap and exploiting them - most of us realize that the solution is simply regulation. Leveraging the power of society and government to force the company to behave properly.

Gesturing at LLMs and going “this and the free market will fix it” is laughably naive, especially in 2026. That is why people are reacting harshly. This is a problem that was created by the free market, it’s not magically going to be fixed by some new product.

by ToucanLoucan2 hours ago|

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Better reply than I would've written.

FWIW GP, I'm not bitter. I just know what won't fix this and cosigning this comment, it's more free sodding markets and more new products.

You want companies to act user-first? Cool. Make it fuckin illegal for em to NOT do that, and watch it happen. I see no percentage in it for anyone, apart from the worst people in our industry, permitting companies to have the option to act unethically. I don't think that adds value for anyone.

by echelon3 minutes ago|

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I'm all for antitrust and pro-consumer regulation, but there appears to be a faster path now.

It's all stochastic hill climbing, and the gradients are changing. The new salient is using AI to tear down moats and make the grading factor how good companies are to customers.