You know what? You keep adding useless features that nobody will ever use let alone ask for in the first place, and in doing so introduce myriad bugs that destroy our stable workflows.

I can keep writing about the new bugs but what's the point?
Even the most important things i.e workspace speed and speedy renders (remember multiprocessing or impacting GPU acceleration?) have always been ignored by you for 5 years now.

I can nitpick about all the bugs, usually they're small and unnoticeable for noobish users, but they're enough to destroy my stable workflows, wasting time looking for solutions and workarounds.

Jezus effing christ, I read sometime ago in an economics/finance article that you Adobe are CONSCIOUSLY releasing half-baked products to the user base, and let them be the UNPAID beta testers.

Guys, this is what happens when a company has a monopoly. They don't care about the product (even if they care, it's just shiny superficial bells and whistles to keep new subscribers coming).

You know what? STOP INTRODUCING USELESS FEATURES AT THE EXPENSE OF STABILITY. We can always "buy" new features from Aescripts.com which is decades ahead of you Adobe dummies. Better yet, those plugins are bought for a lifetime, and don't introduce stability or bug issues application-wide.

God darn it you're destroying my backbone software.

I hate how unintuitive and cobbled the Illustrator --> After Effects flow is. It's like the teams had one phone call years ago and then never improved on the process.

Illustrator: I think and draw here. Then clean up the objects. Creating new Layers (not sublayers) is and never has been in my workflow. It never needed to be. It ruins trying to select things on the canvas, just overcomplicated. To prep an .ai file to go to AE is just convoluted and really trashes the file and layer organization that is correct in Illustrator.

AE: I ONLY do motion here. Trying to design anything in AE, good luck. Pixel snapping, nope. SVG support, nope. Intuitive anchor/position/transform tools? Nope. Easy manipulation of paths and objects? Nope.

Also, copying and pasting paths from AI to AE: pathetic. So complicated, so many steps, good luck explaining. I have to actually count HOW many paths I'm copying, and then go to AE and manually create that many? Are you out of your mind? Also, 2018 and I still can't bring an .svg into AE? I love AE, but so much of my time is spent trying to find a more modern tool that's as powerful under the hood. Lottie really made AE usable for me again, but I still can't smoothly design in AI move it over to AE.

Maybe some of the below requests are available now and I'm not aware or they are in development (cross fingers), but here they are:

Multiple core support... of course.

Trim layer like Premiere does it "Alt + arrows"

Paint EFFECT on Text Layers ...

Show Layer Styles in the Effects Panel like an effect (not forcing the user to navigate the layer controls to find them)

Have the option to choose between Icon (Thumbnail) or List view on the Project panel. Like premiere , and roll over a video file to scroll it ?

Show Layer Styles in the Effects Panel like an effect (not forcing the user to navigate the layer controls to find them).

Show Guides from an imported PSD document.

Collapse option Smart Objects from Photoshop (which are right now treated like bitmaps)

Shape layers from Photoshop must remain as AE shape layer not as a Solid with a Mask

Add AME templates to the Render Cue.

Show audio waveforms in Timeline without having to unfold properties thrice.

Layer Groups in Timeline (sometimes “Shy” is just NOT enough!)

Be able to change the height of a given layer in Timeline (like Premiere).

Thumbnails for layers on the Timeline.

Have the “Adjust composition duration” not only in the “move all attributes” option when Precomposing (like “Trim compose”).

Be able to choose precomp size either based on the scale of the objects or user definable.

Have the option to maintain the scale of a precomp based on the biggest object selected.

Multiple composition properties changer: Scale, FPS, Duration, etc.

Track individual vertices on masks and translate a vertex without affecting the track or editing every keyframe.

Shorcuts for shape layer properties : Scale, rotation etc ( double S for scale ? )

For God’s sake let us import Photoshop brushes already! ;-)

Paint on collapsed Illustrator files!

Fast drag to import all videos in a folder or audios (like Premiere).

Photoshop: Please add an Effects (Filters) window and search field (like After Effects)

Proper adjustement layer support for imported Photoshop files.

When importing image sequences, it would be best to collapse files to see them as one file (like Smoke or Nuke do).

Distorsion mesh, Power pin, Corner pin: Resize grid or handles to masked area, not the whole layer.

Being able to zoom in more than 800% in 2k and 400% on 4k

Why .h264 .mov files can’t be encoded at more than 2000px wide?

Have the option to choose between Icon (Thumbnail) or List view on the Project panel. Like premiere , and roll over a video file to scroll it.

START, END AND WORK Area Information ON THE COMPOSITION WINDOW. (And big numbers please)

Fade the color of a layer when its visibility is disabled (“The Eye” is not active). Like the “stretch negative” warning graphic.

Respect the color of layers when importing Photoshop documents into AE.

Include Premiere projects from Dynamic Link sequences when collecting files.

Dark menu bar like the rest of the UI (like Photoshop or Illustrator). from Render_Ricks

Show the anchor point of a layer while you are editing the mask

Ctrl + H to hide guides

Convert to editable text ....also on illustrator layers.

Respect a Group of layers inside Illustrator the same way it does from Photoshop (as a comp)

Thanks

Since Upgrade to CC2019 AE creates more than one cache:

One in the selected folder - here D:/Caches - thjere you find:
- Media Cache
- Media Cache Files
Peak Files
Team Project files

All good with these.

BUT: Now there is a new folder "Adobe" here - with a subfolder "After Effects" and there you find a subfolder called "16.0" with another subfolder "Disk Cache - COMPUTERNAME.noindex"

AE puts as MASSIVE amount of files there, until my SSD is full.
Purge or delete Cache does not affect this folder.

I have set my maximum Cache to 100 GB - that's how it works in the normal cache files. But since Upgrade AE puts parallel files there and blows the size up until SSD is full.

I have no idea, why AE does that - and how to get this behavior off.