Afrodite-Ohki posted at 6:25AM Fri, 16 August 2019 - #4359571

The reason usually being because if you want to get a job in creation, or work freelance that you'll have to exchange editable files with a client, you'll be required to use Adobe products - because they're industry standard.

Yep - same reason many overpriced, overly-complex and under-performing products that should have died eons ago (Microsoft Sharepoint, Salesforce, etc) are still around... Lock-in.

Now if someone were to create a standard or two for gfx files that become universally used, aren't tied to a vendor-lock/patent, and could be passed around (yeah, right), then Adobe would be threatened enough to stop being so damned customer-hostile. But... I wouldn't hold my breath.

Poser doesn't have that lock-in, and as underdog, I don't think they're in much of a position to dictate anything of its customer base right now.