@BobbyH5280 - well it's too late now to be commiserating the Macromedia deal, that allowed the only other true competitor and actual vector champion Freehand to become Adobe's property to kill of.
I actually came here to promote the great work that Astute Graphics is doing with their plugins for Illustrator. As i wrote in their blog: they make Illustrator usable and even fun. That in addition to giving many of us hope regarding developers that still see that vector tools are still necessary and can be vastly improved upon.
Illustrator fans owe it to themselves just to watch the intro-video to their new plug-in Rasterino
http://www.astutegraphics.com/products/rasterino/
It's something like the above that would actually get people excited about going CC with Illustrator... not including the other great tools they provide. Unfortuantely we... and even they... have to put up with going out of their way just to make CC work out for them. Their blog is a good heads up.
