Indeed. If there were any professionalism left in that management group you would think by now they would be reaching out to some of us to have a serious technical discussion about our findings. Instead of that, they have barricaded themselves behind a wall of utter BS and they expect experienced, knowledgeable people to buy into their nonsense. It's flabbergasting. We aren't even at stage one of a solution until they come out of denial and offer to explore all possible causes of this issue, from wherever including themselves.
I posed this very scenario back in the early days of the CC only pathway for Adobe CS products. I worried that eventually management and the executives would prioritize profits over results instead of seeking a balanced approach that focuses on quality assurance. Though, I never expected so many incidents this soon in just one product cycle. I thought it would take a bit longer for them to fall prey to such a process.
What good is the 'Guided Upright' if a significant number of users can't accurately print that 'upright' image? It's just another failure in attention to detail before a version update is released.
Looking back on Lightroom 6.x/2015.x ... it has been a three ring circus comedy of errors with multiple minor and major fiascos that when scrutinized in toto, does not bode well for end users. It's been like they are asleep at the wheel.
So far, in the past year, for multiple updates, I have put off for several months updating Lightroom CC because of major issues caused by the ineptitude of those running the show for the Lightroom team. Yet, Adobe has received my monthly stipend without fail. They get their money ... I get problems and the absence of what I am paying for. On some level, reasonable thing folks could consider this theft of services by the developer.
What good is paying a fee every 30 days if they constantly screw up the application so I can't take advantage of the few new features, bug fixes and new camera/lens support offered in the updates? I end up paying for the new stuff, but can't use it because they release faulty, problematic products that hamper or entirely break my workflow.
We had to endure the Import Dialog Simplification implosion that took considerable valuable time for the engineers to rectify, not to mention the the problems most longtime traditional users had to endure because management thought they knew better. After which we end users received an apology and a promise they were going to 'listen' better ... they seem to have fallen tone deaf immediately afterward.
Then later on, it took three tries to restore the capability to export multiple images to Photoshop droplets after a botched update that broke the capability that had been around since at least Lr v2.
Now there are major ColorSync/printer profile issues for users of at least some Epson printers ... and Adobe insists it's the absence of OS and/or printer driver updates? ... When the proof in the pudding indicates no other apps created by other developers experience the same issues using the same exact OS versions and printer drivers they recommend applying?
Do they think we are idiots?
I must be, because I allowed my monthly payment for July 2016 to be paid to Adobe yesterday. I promise I won't be so forgiving if this trend continues until my next annual agreement comes around.
