The fear among those who shared the tweet was simple: That Photoshop, and other Adobe products, are tracking artists that use their apps to see how they work—in essence, stealing the processes and actions that graphic designers have developed over decades of work to mine for its own automated systems. The concern is that what is a complicated, convoluted artistic process becomes possible to automate—meaning “graphic designer” or “artist” could soon join the long list of jobs at risk of being replaced by robots.
Meanwhile in open source lands:
If you do not like what a software product is doing, stop supporting the vendor and take your time, effort and money elsewhere. We have choices now, unlike 2 decades ago when many proprietary tools were best in class.