I'm a professional graphic designer and I think everyone I know pirates it. It's an insane amount of money to spend if you're freelancing. Freelance creative work is often a tough life with thin margins. The price point is egregious. I regularly use Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects. None of the software has had any meaningful update in over a decade, except for maybe some masking/selection tools. The AI stuff is trash and no professional would use it.
you make money of it, it's scummy to pirate. I would understand someone who uses the software once a month to pirate it, but you literally make money of it.
