You guys know its terrible. Myself and presumably million of people just want to take a pdf file and do simple thongs to it. Take all of the photos out, or all of the text.

We need to stop pretending like we dont already know whats wrong with it all. While we in the US watch the latest sci-fi showing us simplicity and ease, we work in settings that dont even try to mimic this within present day reason. Our employers, clients, and projects dont think removing the photos from a dos should take two hours, so why are we hustling along to make, at the end of the day, your laziness look better by saying "hey, this job is long and tedious, thats just the way it is?"

Closing this out with an open speculation. If my work today were printed out and physical, this would have been 30 minutes, tops, just cutting it out and gluing it. Adobe has merely made today a world in which the same task is "~longer" by a random amount, depending on how much their clunky, bolted-upon behemoth of a platform "likes" your method and goal. Do you benefit?

How many hours of the rest of the worlds time has been wasted trying to deal with this for you?

Today, millions of new, un-imagined ideas take form every day, and are the holders of the worlds sweetest monopoly that isnt- the pdf file-- actually doing right by our work?