I still use Fireworks sometimes. I wish it was brought back - was really fantastic for UI mockup, quick photoshopping and basic vector editing.
(I worked for Macromedia, work for Adobe).
Because just doing it in those technologies is often just as fast if not more productive than doing a mock-up in XD or Photoshop or Illustrator.
I’ll use a vector editor to edit shapes, and Photoshop for anything photographic or that client-side filters can’t handle but that’s about it.
So in a way I’m grateful for Adobe killing Fireworks and making the alternatives so unpalatable.
I barely used Fireworks, but primarily for the slicing of images into tables that was all the rage. I did use Dreamweaver and the Adobe app whose name is eluding me. One day I actually looked at the HTML/CSS from those apps, and it was not human readable at all. From that day forward, I started moving away from those apps and just wrote it by hand. So much less bloat. But I will admit, they were most definitely a nice set of training wheels to start the learning process.
GoLive? PageMill?
Adobe shutdown the activation servers so they just work now with universal keys (same as the CS2). EOL, they don’t care