Adobe is hands down the most convenient way to work through projects. Someone else said it below, the ecosystem is really the winning part of the formula. I feel that other software might be able to do more or be marginally better, but the moment you start trying to connect a few different softwares together to work well it starts to get complicated. I’ve fought the Adobe wave for years and when I started to get more serious about design I bit the bullet. If you’re a creative, it’s worth getting and talking to your tax person about it being a tax write off especially if you have an LLC.
Genuinely interested in hearing what everyone else’s takes are, but I think for 95% of the workforce projects out there, to be fluent in Adobe > fighting against the current. I’m upset about the subscription service, but it’s one of those factored costs today to be able to stay convenient for client work.