Combining common aspects of all Adobe Apps and their core functions

Question

I use Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Fireworks, Dreamweaver and Lightroom daily. So do most of you.
I've noticed that aside from the bizarre UI differences between say InDesign and Photoshop, there are other changes that make little sense - and I'd like to know why, and hear how you think we could change this.
Companies today are under the assumption that if they throw more fluffy features at us, we'll not notice the underlying core functionalities are suffering from lack of attention.
For instance - sure, geotaging in lightroom is useful - if you have a GPS attachment for your camera (or if it's built in) so having that as an option is nice, but having it load all the time and run "in the background" while I'm using lightroom doesn't work for "me". Facial recognition, it's coming eventually, but really, when would the pro photographer "daily" use this feature to search 20k + images? We already tag our things, and it's far faster to search a text string than it is to scan pixels.
So awesome fun feature, I'm sure the kids will love it, so include it sure, but don't have it eat up my resources. Let me turn it off.
So here's the point.
Adobe has created, and is still creating, a macrocosm of software that is supposed to interlink, allowing us to be productive from photo/drawing to publishing, and connect and share and so on, but the core features of our software do not do all of these things well - they only do them adequately.
We have Photoshop.com / Creative Cloud / Revel and other storage areas for our stuff - and none really link and all over lap, and all need another's feature, or improvement.
Why not merge them and have one awesome experience. But too, the "kids" already have tumblr, and instagram and facebook and drop box and on and on.
Why why have so many Adobe forums (on different sites) - why not merge them?
None of Adobe's offerings are "revolutionary" - just more clutter and more of the same, and more logins and profiles and links.
Like why have so many Adobe forums (on different sites) - why not merge them?
Can you name one Adobe product that is "new" and a "must have" over the last 5 years that you cannot already use as freeware?
Adobe for Linux would be so very awesome - but oh wait, they already have it for Macs - that's unix - isn't that the "same"? So where is it then? Collusion with apple?
Why did it take so long to have 64bit apps, why are some apps still not 64bit? Why are some both?! - and that I'd have to install them both?! o_0
Open and Save dialogues in the UI's don't match between programs - XP styles vs Win7 styles. Some programs are "new" others "old" - huh?
Dictionary's don't match. Why not have one and load that between programs?
UI scaling doesn't match - different icon sizing, and font sizing (no we aren't talking retina support - just basic enlargement).
Tool layouts/options don't match. Fireworks / Illustrator. You bought Macromedia almost a Decade ago, may want to upate that?
Why are "quick" icons removed from the UI (like arrange all) and stuffed into a menu structure, but available in other programs?
Processor and Ram and GPU user settings/options don't match. - and yes I know it's application specific, but really? Illustrator couldn't use allocation options?
Limitations on artboard sizes that corel for instance doesn't have (Illustrator bogs down - with a lot of effects - at 100" and can't go larger than 220"? really?)
     isn't illustrator basically math based? Corel doesn't have this issue?
Limitations on printing/layout and other options that Corel doesn't have (man they have an awesome print layout preview screenthat indesign and illustrator could use).
Scalable anchor points based on zoom level. Those things are frightfully small.
Options to actually disable (not simply hide) add-on features/modules/tools not being used. *cough* lightroom.
Network access capabilities for some programs (lightroom cannot read it's database over a network)
The Adobe Application Manager - a simple "verify and download" tool is embarrassingly lacking in options pertaining just to its function.
Why is Lightroom such a bother to install through AAM/Creative Cloud Subscription?
Why do the installers take hours and hours to complete? Since Vista, I can install a full computer and its updates by the time I'm done getting Creative Suite Master installed and updated.
I'd like to hear about more common sense "core functions" that should be addressed - so Adobe can have a simple list - in one place that "highlights" where they are really dropping the ball.
Searching Adobe forums is fun - and you can search all of the above and find long threads on all of them - years old and un-addressed. Maybe because they are spread out?
Adobe seems to be resting on its laurels of decades of being the defacto design suite, and it's been apparent for years that the core software is late to release, buggy, bloated, and although more appealing to the eye, and now with fancy schmancy cloud features, our core operations are just overwhelmed due to all the fluff.
We have too much "left hand doesn't give a sh*t about what the right hand is doing" and that needs to change.
So I'd like to see your lists of "when I use this feature in this program, I'd have expected it to be in this other program and it's not".
     or "Why doesn't this work like it used to?"
     or "this free program here has this awesome thing, why don't we have it here?"
I'm not talking about a list of glitches, I'm not talking about cloud dosiewhatsits and the fluffy crap.
We'll all assume you have the appropriate computer gear to run it adequately.
I'm taking about core features we spend thousands on.
I'm taking about you having a think about the core reason you bought "this" Adobe Program.
Does your Adobe software do what was advertised correctly, "quickly" and well.
Can you move "seamlessly" between Adobe apps?
Then list those things that confuse you because it "should be there" (because in the last 3 releases it was and now it's gone) or "should work this way" and doesn't.
Maybe then Adobe could see that our list is a sign they need to get back to basics before they overwhelm what little functionality they have left.
I didn't buy Abode products to have cloud storage - I bought it to make money and be productive in a clean workflow.
I don't seem to have that anymore.

Answer 1

If you bought them as separate apps, the will be independent apps. There is a natural connection between the apps. Acrobat has a preference for the touchup tools for raster and vector graphics.
I guess if you never set the Image and Object Editor, these could be blank, but personally, it is nice to be able to edit images and objects on the rare times you do not have access to the original files used to create a pdf file. Any modern Illy file can usually be opened by Acrobat. I don't have Photoshop Elements, but they may be able to rasterize pdfs. I would not worry about the connections between the apps. Most of the time, they work completely independently of the other parts and only react with each other when ou want them to.