An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop

A longtime Photoshop user who subscribed to Adobe Creative Cloud since 2013 uninstalled the software in July 2026 due to mounting frustrations. Key grievances include Adobe's discontinuation of Creative Cloud Synced Files (a DropBox-like service), deteriorating performance of the web-based Creative Cloud app, persistent update issues, and declining personal need for Photoshop as design workflows shifted to tools like Figma. The author ultimately decided that familiarity with the software was no longer enough to justify the subscription.