With bitmaps you get a blob of pixels but vectors you can be edited and refined much easier.
It makes me miss Apple’s old keynote style that they’ve abandoned in favor of the bland, sanitized, over-polished and pre-recorded video keynotes.
I’m honestly over so much of the corporate cynicism and Blind-indification that’s turned what was once a necessary precautionary stance to this demonization or ridicule of people who happen to love their work and where they do it.
This session is "Sneaks" which is held every year, and has a fun, casual atmosphere. i.e. it has a theme, has a celebrity co-host, lots of jokes, food and drink served, etc...
Its basically a bunch of people who are creative, and are having fun nerding out on the tech...
Its a lot of fun.
(I work for Adobe)
As an aside, I hate that people like yourself describe fans of anything they don’t personally understand as cults. It’s an antagonistic framing of a question designed to remove any good faith discussion.
There are conferences for Adobe customers to teach them how to use Adobe tools. I think there was recently an Adobe Max conference in Los Angeles. It could have been filed there.
You have to read some of the YouTube comments to understand that some of those hoots and claps could be for real.
My wife's an artist and says they had a shitty version of this but this is crazy.