I really wish I could give up Adobe, especially since they're actively hostile towards Linux (excluding Android).

Unfortunately there still aren't any good substitutes for Photoshop. We're getting closer all the time but we aren't there quite yet. No Affinity, GIMP, and Corel aren't enough (but I hope they get there someday).

Illustrator is still hands down the best vector editor.

As far as I can tell nobody is anywhere near replicating the functionality of InDesign.

Most web developers stopped using Dreamweaver around the time CSS was invented and people stopped using tables for layout.

Flash is dead thankfully.

I don't do much with video and didn't really like Premiere or After Effects so I'm not familiar with that side of things.

On the bright side of things there are several fantastic alternatives to Lightroom.

I am just a poor guy with sometimes better skills in GIMP and Inkscape than professional designers in their expensive Adobes.

Wow. Adobe? In the past, there was a time, when I used DreamWeaver, PageMaker, PhotoShop, Flash. But DreamWeaver is not even a good code editor, much less anything usable on the WYSIWYG side. PageMaker was awesome, but is not supported anymore -.- We all know that Flash is very dead and Photoshop? Well, I am not a designer, and the times of me manipulating images are long over. There exist people who are better than me, and there exist tools, which are easier to use for a dev. Also it's too damn expensive. Lately, if I even need to do image manipulation, I go with Paint.NET or GIMP, but today, someone showed me Affinity, which is < £50 and doesn't even look halve bad - so I might give that a try.

Adobe is one of those companies which I don't use anymore and have no use-case for. The only memories I still have are bad, bloated installers and over-engineered menus and tool boxes. So nope, no Adobe for me anymore.

I think moving away from Adobe's offering is lot harder than you can imagine. Not a lot of big business want to move away from the Adobe's Photoshop and Illustrator products.

There are free alternatives and cheap ones. But these two products are like giants which are not easy to replace. And any new generation of designers and developers who wishes to land job, choose these products.

People who have experience can switch to new alternatives. But existing business and the designers who are relying on these tools for their everyday job, I don't see them switching to alternative. Some products from Adobe are lot better and it'd be foolish to switch to alternatives.

If you want to move away from Photoshop and Illustrator I think Affinity has some good alternatives for a fair price. It also both works for MacOS and Windows: affinity.serif.com/en-gb

I never fell into that trap in the first place -- for photo/graphics editing I still use JASC Paint Shop Pro 7... which was the last version that had a good UI and wasn't a bloated mess. Adobe kept dropping new versions, but in terms of legitimate improvements I never saw any worth mention whilst the memory footprint kept growing and performance went to hell.

Of course you have the clowns, fools, and scam artists under the DELUSION that Photoshop is a design tool, when they don't know enough about HTML, CSS, JavaScript, emissive colourspace, or accessibility norms to be designing a blasted thing! Again, design is engineering that incorporates art, not art unto itself!

Hence why any PSD jockey calling themselves a 'designer" is an ignorant twaddle in serious need of a quadruple helping of sierra tango foxtrot uniform! As evidenced by most of them not even being able to calculate Y from RGB, much less knowing the significance of that.

I don't work in vectors apart from as fonts, so I use Hi-Logic Font Creator Pro for that and not Illustrator.

Apart from those, Adobe has NEVER offered ANYTHING I'd use by choice. That's not a joke.

You mentioned dumbass epic /FAIL/ like Muse and Dreamweaver -- gah, DW. Teaching two generations how NOT to build websites. A sleazy dirtbag SCAM designed to do nothing more than dupe the feeble minded into THINKING they can build a website.

The results invariably being inaccessible broken bloated train wreck laundry lists of how NOT to use HTML, CSS, or JavaScript. Zero semantics, WYSIWYG fixed layout design, and JavaScript doing CSS' job.

Such tools are a monument to stupidity, and the web will be better off the sooner such half-witted ignorant trash is hauled away in the garbage!

As I've said for two decades, the ONLY thing you can learn from Dreamweaver is how not to build a website. Sure the apologists will try and say "well if you just use the code editor and nothing else" -- but 1) I've never actually seen that done competently, and 2) AT THAT POINT JUST USE A FLAT TEXT EDITOR!

Of course JOE FORBID we expect people designing the front end to understand semantic markup or be expected to test in actual browsers as they go -- since "alt-tab F5" is such a horrific strain on their abilities.