XD was a tactical response to Sketch and Figma's encroachment of Photoshop as an UI/UX tool. Whilst XD is now a better target for a like-for-like comparison, from a historical perspective, Adobe is on the back-foot trying to re-capture the disciplines which no longer use their product.

This. I just used adobe XD for the first time and I actually truly enjoyed it. I'm not an Adobe fan boy - there just happened to be a sale on the Adobe cloud suite that I bought and XD came with it.