I categorically refuse to use Adobe products, and I encourage anyone reading to migrate to alternatives.
What alternatives? GIMP? It's hot garbage
For Bitmap editing, I've been using Pixelmator Pro and I like it a lot.
Check out affinity for some tasks.
It could have been a really great move if they would have done the opposite: Make a clear mission to focus on designer and a cloud that is not used for ML/AI but rather focus on how to commercialise and sell their products using AI. Probably some managers that was prioritizing shorterm goals versus long term and clearly hit the brand perception by doing this bad move…
Modern corporations will always incentivize managers to prioritize short term goals because that is reflected in quarterly growth charts, which is all that companies motivated by profits care about.