PDF - Portable Document Format. A document written designed from scratch TO NOT BE EDITABLE!!!! Yet the whole world has gone completely NUTS. A world where people think they can change gender like their clothes, has now adopted a software that was designed to be uneditable to edit and create documents.
1st day as President. Adobe is illegal, every licence destroyed. All employees terminated. Every building is demolished. Illegal to speak or publish anything positive about Adobe. American productivity would double overnight.
Adobe is NOT, CANNOT be intuitive. This is not debatable.
The customer / user makes the rules. IT exists to serve the user. If the user does not understand and cannot intuitively do anything the user wants, then the product SUCKS.
This is why IT people are not completely human. The hard disconnect between a software engineer and the rest of humanity.
You take your car to a mechanic and say it will not start, he understands. The mechanic has a car not because he is a mechanic but because he is a human being who needs to get from A to B.
You take your computer to an IT person and say it will not start and they don’t understand. IT people think computers are something to work on, play with, maybe make a buck messing with but they don’t understand that the computer exists to serve Humanity! IT people will always defend the computer, brag about how great they are and blame you THE CUSTOMER.
The federal agency I am at( I assume they all do) adopted PDF years ago, it has been a 24/7 absolute nightmare everyday to work here. The general public has been beaten down to accept that any issues they have with a program, especially Adobe, is just user error and lack of knowledge.
No company should ever accept change in their IT systems. The internet has not change a single bit in 30 years, only gotten faster. Apps have not change a single bit since inception, yet IT world constantly changes it.
Humans haven’t changed in 1,000’s of years, yet your company’s home page changes every 3-5 years and they say “its better” “more intuitive”. Microsoft says the same thing, which is an absolute admission of guilt that the last one sucked and wasn’t intuitive, but IT people need job security so they keep changing stuff. NO! CHANGE IS NOT INHERENTLY GOOD.
We are reaping the whirl wind of picking on the pocket protector pencil holder geeks in colleges in the 80’s who never forgave their peers for the abuse they received.
That's a big reason why I continue to use Windows 7 and Linux for every day operations and use W10 only when I absolutely have to. I also prefer Office 2010 over the newest incarnations because the newer software constantly removes items that I like to use.