HelpX is failing. Time to reconsider...

We (I'm sure others will follow) were send here to express our concert about the current helpx-concept.
I'm a ACI for After Effects and Premiere, and will be for SpeedGrade as soon as such is availeble. My concers regard these applications:
- I miss a TOC (table of content).
- Top features are not even mentioned on the main page.
- Seaching results in a swarm of unrelated hits, or at best is a stroll along relevant information
- Some features are soley 'documented' in a video/tutorial, making them less complete and hard to surface when searching
- not index
In general: Helpx info would be a great if it was an addition to proper CS6 documentation. But it seems that Helpx is there 'instead' of proper documentation. This is worrying.
If I, as a 15+ year user of AE and Pr have dificulties finding documentation, then how will novice users find it?

Here's an update on fixes to help.
(1) Add missing content
We’ve found new features that were missing or needed more detail.  We’ve been adding or augmenting articles for each.  We’ve already posted many of them, and will continue to update through August.
(2) Make it easier to browse for specific features
For CS6, we collapsed a lot of shorter articles to improve users’ ability to find related content.  Some of the resulting articles were too long and combine too many different concepts.  We’re identifying and breaking apart too-long articles.  This should help people find specific features when they browse the Help & Tutorials page and PDF topic list.
(3) Improve confusing content organization
On the help landing page (Help & Tutorials)
We’ve reorganized articles in each topic so they list first by highest priority and then are grouped by subtopic.
Offline Help PDFs
We’ll republish this updated order in all Help PDFs early next week (around 8/21).
(4) Make it easier to know when content applies to a specific version
Content for CS5, CS5.5 and CS6 are integrated into one Help content set. We have found errors and omissions in version notation and are fixing them.
How do we indicate which version applies?
--Most of the articles apply to all versions—so we don’t specifically identify the version on these articles.
--When an article applies to CS5.5 and later, the article name indicates which versions that apply.
--If different parts of an article apply to specific versions, affected section headings will indicate version.
(5) Fix search problems (filter for product, improve help results)
We fixed a bug in the in-Help search code so results are again filtered for the selected product.
We continue to optimize search results for CS6 content and have seen improvement.  If users want to search just Adobe reference content, they can filter their Community Help search results (see this blog post).

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