Creative Suite Basic?

Question

Has anyone ever asked Adobe to create a simpler version of Creative Suite? This would include:
InDesign with no transparency or data merge. Think Pagemaker on OSX platform. Can place any files without transparency, and export straight to PDF.
Illustrator with no transparency, or animation, or raster effects, or Live Paint or Live Trace. Sort of like AI7 on OSX platform. Still have PDF compatibility when saved as native file. Call it Adobe Draw. Straightforward vector art.
Photoshop Elements. I am not familiar with Elements but I think of it as a stripped down version of Photoshop, if that is correct it is a good fit.
Adobe Reader.
Bridge, and global color management settings.
Of course the newer versions would have no problems opening these files. Also, anyone who purchases this has an option to upgrade to superior versions of Creative Suite.
Advantages: simpler and cheaper. It may end up being a popular product. I would buy it if the price was right. Maybe Adobe already has something like this available, if so I'd like to know about it.
Thanks for your input.

Answer 1

There is no question that some designers seriously abuse transparency. Just because there are 16 different available blend modes, for example, doesn't mean  a designer has to try to use all 16 such blend modes on a single page. This is akin to how some designers in a previous generation designed pages on which all 35 base fonts in early Adobe PostScript-based printers are used on a single page! However, it really isn't the role of the layout and design software to act like a nanny, trying to analyze whether a designer is using too much or otherwise abusing the transparency feature.
With reference to spot colors and transparency, spot colors are permitted to participate in transparency blending. The problem is generally that spot colors often have very unusual attributes in terms of physical opacity that transcend what we can show on a screen. The user can get into real problems if spot colors and transparency are improperly or imprudently used together. Often the problem is that the designer uses spot colors in their design, even though printing will be done completely with process colors that only approximate the typically out-of-gamut spot color, simply as a means of accessing "pleasing color" which is of course out of gamut for printing.
The bottom line is the need for training and education of users and proper preflighting of the content by both the designers and the prepress personnel. Nanny modes are typically useless and counterproductive since they often yield too many false positives, resulting in users turning off such modes.
          - Dov