This neglects to address WHY bitcode was removed. Wasn't this supposed to be a big deal, and required of all app submissions only a couple of years ago? I thought it was to facilitate the porting of applications to whatever architecture Apple saw fit to deploy.
I want to support independent, non-rental-scam offerings as well. But Serif's attitude toward fixing bugs in its suite has been pretty bad. And in their presentation of "what's new," they seem to have ignored repeated requests for features that are standard and expected in this type of software.
They're not even complicated requests; stuff like non-printing layers and the ability to resize the selection marquee. I mean... WTF?
But Illustrator is ruined by a glaring omission that people have been complaining about for years (if not decades): There's no way to select only the objects that are totally within the selection marquee. Every other vector art application offers this critical selection mode (Affinity Designer defaults to it, I think).
I consider Illustrator unusable as a result. It's also essentially abandonware.
I wonder if they fixed the defect that repeatedly and incrementally blurs your images in Photo when you merge layers. I mean... how can you use a product that degrades your images continually as you work with your compositions?
Does Photo finally have a "transform selection" option, which lets you resize the selection marquee? Yes, it was released without a way to adjust the selection... and has stayed that way for years.
Does Photo finally have a crop tool that actually crops the image?
Does Designer finally have a function to trim the canvas to the objects on it?
Do the apps finally have a "do not print" option on layers?
It doesn't appear that Serif has fixed profound UI defects that have hobbled the suite from the beginning...
The gradient-fill dialog hasn't been revised at all; it is still baffling and dysfunctional, and lacks any way to control gradient angle: https://i.imgur.com/OUh5Ase.png And there's only one color well.
The eyedropper's functionality is still backward... or I should say eyedroppers', because they're all over the place. You can have three or four on the screen at once. Why?
You still can't set things to be the same size by selecting them all and then entering dimensions in the transform panel. It irritatingly resizes THE SELECTION BOX around the objects to the size you enter, mashing the objects to unintended sizes within it. WTF?
This is not looking good. Historically they've had a smug, shitty attitude toward defects and sure enough, they persist for years.
