At this point? I'm sorry but I had to laugh till I fell out of my chair. I was so amused by these words that I had to join the forum so I could reply.
You do realize that ADPro has not been modified or maintained for more than 15 years? What are you still doing playing with it? Or ImageFX?
I'm still laughing.
I had to bite my tongue here to prevent me from not using forum-banning language, but you could try a little more tact. I'm sure you didn't mean to come across in an abrasive way, though, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
I've used ImageFX in the past few years to produce graphics for commercially sold products (CD covers, videogame covers) and graphics for professional archaeological reports. I actually took the graphics home and did them with ImageFX because the photo editing software they had at work was too cumbersome.
It has never hindered me, and it has been just as flexible and faster (in my case) than doing the equivalent in Adobe Photoshop.
Maybe I wouldn't win an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement, but the people I produced these graphics for (whether they be customers, clients or projects partners) have never even suspected I was using 15 year old software. That's because the end result looks good, and that's all that matters. Instead they've said "Wow! Great job!" and sometimes asked if they could get that software for their Windows/Mac computer.
Some of the most beautiful furniture ever produced, far surpassing what is commonly done today (in the Palace at Versailles, etc.) was produced only using hand tools. Just because they didn't use power tools doesn't make the end product any less impressive. So you see, it's not the tool, it's what you can do with the tool. Some people produce amazing art with old software they are familiar with and know how to use intimately, while others have the latest and the greatest software, but produce shitty animated gifs for websites.
You know, there are some artists out there that even use (gasp!) --- paint and canvas! Wasn't that developed in, like, the 15th century!