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I attended my first "LEAP" as the virtual version during the pandemic (was free, company wouldn't pay to send me to the Live ones), but that was also just after Adobe took over. I was very, VERY disappointed at the heavy-handed Adobe presence and wasting time in each seminar hawking Adobe products and integrations. I heard the live ones were fun and had a great sense of comraderie. Shame I missed those days.

Then, Adobe absorbed the Lion awards into the Adobe-wide awards, diluting the ability of Workfront-only users to really have a crack at them and making Workfront's community feel less special…just another cog in the great Adobe machine.

I didn't attend the conference this year…I assumed it would be more of the same. I get more out of the Community here.

What's really annoying is I dislike Adobe, not the WF devs. I've been working with the Beta devs, talked to folks on the Armenian teams, and they all seem like good, enthusiastic folks who really want to make a good product. I can only assume somewhere in their upper management chain is where it is going awry.

Adobe has a bad case of "Aldus Syndrome" (had it for a while now)…and the only cure might be for an upstart to knock them down a peg…or steamroll them over.

Yes Adobe, I remember how you came to prominence…and you have become what you once fought against. Shame really.