"Speaking of NOT rock solid, as a Creative Cloud subscriber, I am saddened today to hear that allegorithmic (Substance Designer/Painter) today sold (out) to Adobe. In my experience, Photoshop and Illustrator are never the same twice. They create version upgrades with little to no testing-- it's all about the $$$ with Adobe. Ugh."

What a blow to the stomach... I found out through your post. I should be making back up installers of the final version and hope they keep working with my permanent license files. :|

Softimage was mainly on my mind when talking about taking out competition and you brought it up. Another sad story.

Apologies for a second post that is unrelated to the OP, but in some way it *is* related. It is a great time to give free-software or smaller innovating companies that do not sell out a chance to enter our pipelines. Probably the best slap back to the buy and kill policies of software titans.