Why I Finally Cancelled Adobe Creative Cloud (And Haven't Looked Back)

For years, Adobe Creative Cloud was a permanent part of my workflow. Photoshop, Acrobat, Illustrator... they were simply the default choice. Then one day I checked my monthly subscriptions and asked myself a simple question: "How many Adobe apps do I actually use every week?" The answer surprised me. Most of the time, I wasn't doing complex design work. I was compressing PDFs, converting images, resizing files, removing backgrounds, merging documents, or making small edits that took only a few m