A week ago, I broke one of my cardinal rules and upgraded to Tahoe without waiting for .3, and I’ve been taking a beating for it since. Happy to say that so far it has nothing to do with Blocs. It’s the Adobe products and in particular Photoshop, except that it’s looking more like a Bridge problem now. They’re aware of it in the Adobe forum, although not everyone is experiencing it. I had to watch an Adobe tech run my system by remote for three hours just to get Photoshop to launch, but it worked so poorly that it didn’t matter. This morning I’m noting that if I don’t use Bridge to open the files, PS is running fine. Recommend you wait on the upgrade, and I’m wondering if anyone else is seeing this. I have an intel MacPro tower, but the problem is not isolated to intel vs Apple Silicon.
That’s quite a horrible experience for software that is that costly. Glad I dumped Adobe’s Creative Suite years ago.
Maybe time to leave the Adobe matrix? 
Yep, after being an Adobe user for aboutb 25 years I jumped ship when the subscriptions got silly and went to Affinity.
The first thing I will say is that they do what I need now, being semi retired and leaving the graphic design market behind, but they’re really watered down versions of the Adobe Suite (The Designer/Illustrator comparison especially). The basics are there, but the niceties aren’t. Maybe they will come through time, but there doesn’t seem to be much progress or support with them.
For example, I drew up a little logo in Affinity Designer last month and it took me a couple of hours. It just so happened I was working elsewhere a few days later and they had Illustrator on the Mac for me to use. Being in the middle of nowhere, on my lunchbreak I thought I’d have a go at doing the same job in Illustrator to see how long it took - 20 minutes! Just something as simple as splitting a line, tapering thicks and thins is so difficult with Affinity, but it just came flooding back with Illustrator.
I’m not knocking Affinity in the slightest - they are good, solid programmes, but they’re not full replacements for Adobe, especially (like me, and this may be the problem) if you have used Adobe products for years.
Yes there are definitely differences between the suites.
Affinity could use the component feature and let the community evolve features at a quicker pace.
I’m a retired designer as well and I can honestly say there are a very few times I’ve missed an Adobe feature enough to even consider them ever again.
I’m the polar opposite, I love Affinity Designer, had used Illustrator for 15+ years, Photoshop much longer, Quantel Paintbox before that, (and well before that was MacDraw on the Classic boxes in college in early 90s 
), I switched to Designer just before the pandemic, so 6 or 7 years ago now. I love it, I find it quick and easy to do anything. If I visualise in my head what I’m after I know I can get it knocked out in Designer pretty quick. Again at work it is all Adobe, it can be rough going for me to jump back on Adobe, I find it all clunky and takes ages with many unnecessary steps. It’s a bit similar with Blender 3D and Cheetah 3D, I know Blender has an amazing feature set, I even teach it to students, but if I want a 3D model quick I use Cheetah. With splitting lines, tapering strokes and boolean features, I use these a lot in Affinity, this is beacuse I like to do illustrations that have comic book style outlines quite a bit, so they are inherent to me like changing gears in a car. I also do a lot of work that will result in PDF output, Designer to me became my best friend over Illustrator when it came to the options, speed and ease. I’m not knocking what you are saying, I get it, it just shows how we all have different preferences and workflows. I do love Designer though, I wouldn’t even consider moving back to Adobe now, also too many Adobe apps trying to do niche things, personally it feels to me just splitting up features in to seperate apps to look like a big suite where some of these things should be inherent in another app. It’s like Premiere, I find that a bit of a noddy dated app compared to other video editors such as Davinci. I think they sat on their nest for too long when they switched CS to a subscription model, less innovation, whereas other apps filled those voids quickly, in this case Dreamweaver/Muse/Photoshop left a void for superb apps like Blocs and Stacks. The old Photoshop feature where you could create visual imagery, slice, animate and export as a webpage, tthat was innovative and out of this world in the early 2000s, but Adobe let it stagnate, then be outdated for developing browsers and dropped it. Oh my goodness, sorry I’m rambling with nostalgia now, quick somebody change the subject to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and Jetset Willy or vintage Star Wars figures 
You can say that again.
I’ve been active in their forums FOR YEARS saying what needs to be added or fixed, but Serif (now Canva) couldn’t care less. The developer never replies back in the forums, unlike what @norm does in this excellent forum. They implement only what THEY deem fit for users, giving no ear to what users want. And don’t get me started on the lack of an image trace tool!
It makes me love Blocs all the more because it’s updated frequently, Norm posts in the forum, and updates are meaningful. It’s a night-and-day developer difference. If Norm took over the Affinity Suite, Adobe would be sweating bullets in short order, I assure you.
Spotted your post about the matter on Apple’s forum today:
Unsurprisingly, I see the gazillion-pointer forum dwellers had their way, changing the title of your thread to something more politically correct and then asking for EtreCheck so they can magically identify or solve your problem. 
Currently, the last post (by a self-professed brainy fellow) is blaming it on you (typical):
Forum members were fewer points to their name are more sympathetic to your plight (which is normal there, in my experience)…
Anyway, I’m sorry to hear you’re having to go through all that with Adobe apps and macOS Tahoe.
I seem to have started a hijacking of this post now - sorry!
Great to read others thoughts, and @JDW , agreed, their support is very poor, and @SpookyDoo , no, I’m never going back to the Adobe subscription, just stating that I found it easier to use and slipped straight back into it.
I have, just this morning, had an email through from Affinity mailing list saying big changes are coming soon - I await with bated breath…
Probably something like:
• Now works well on macOS Tahoe
and
• Now 15% faster!
And all the while we still have no image trace.
But Adobe is worse because they steal money endlessly via subscription. Affinity apps are nice. The company just needs a top dog who knows how to direct the engineering team to work on the right features and additions. It’s really that simple and could make the suite incredibly awesome in short order.
None of this helps @Samsdad because I believe he wants to stick with Adobe, and I don’t blame him for that.
I myself have an M1 Max 16” MBP at home and haven’t upgraded to Tahoe yet.
It’s great though, great to have a chit chat about stuff that’s relevant to us all, get other folks thoughts and opinions.
You have a huge valid point with that, that is long overdue. I use the ‘Image Vectorizer’ app, it’s really good, cost peanuts to buy a good few years ago now. I find it far better than Illustrators Live Trace.
I guess it’s all about what you use the Adobe stuff for. For rigged 2D animation I use Moho, something it is dedicated for, whereas After Effects rigged 2D seems really basic in comparison. I just find it is all or nothing with Adobe, you subscribe and get all the apps, each does some amazing stuff or just the opposite just touches on certain features, but you often find small not well known apps do amazing stuff that fill holes, like with SVG animation, batch conversion (Retrobatch is amazing) Image Vectorizer etc.
This is an amazing community. Lots of great insight here. I owe everybody a shot and a beer, although my tab with @Norm and @Eldar is little higher. Many thanks.
I’ve been using Affinity since 1.0, but isn’t Adobe Bridge something that the Affinity suite doesn’t actually provide (at least not yet)?
Has Adobe released a newer version of their apps that resolves all the macOS Tahoe issues?
No, still seeing it intermittently, and I’ve decided to eliminate one variable by purchasing a new computer. My MacPro desktop is less than four years old, but I bought it right before the shift to Apple Silicon, so ditching the intel chip. Thank-you for asking.
Oh, so the Adobe Photoshop, etc. issues pertain primarily to using macOS 26 on Intel Macs, with no issues appearing on Apple Silicon Macs?
Hope so. I’ll let you know in a couple of weeks.
Unfortunately Affinity has locked down their forums and you can not purchase any of their software pending a “big” announcement and the end of the month.
Speculation is now that Canva owns Affinity many believe they will be switching to some sort of online and/or subscription model similar to Adobe.
Pray to the software gods these folk are wrong.
Seems like every year we get closer and closer to owning nothing!
Hello @mliving
I am not use adobe and Affinity. Now they are launching new versions
It looks like it is still free? It might not stay that way but if it is not over priced then it will still be very good.