CorelDRAW 2020 has received only one point-release update and only one 'hot fix' update. Worse yet, maintenance updates have been few and far between. They're not building up enough new features and improvements in a 12 month time span for the product to be worthy of a whole version number change, and the cost to users that goes along with it.

I don't think Corel has the resources to release whole versions of CorelDRAW on an annual basis. Version 2020 was better, but the only notable improvement was the addition of Variable Font support. I'm somewhat concerned about the future of the CorelDRAW application. The newest version of Illustrator will open 30 year old AI files. The last few versions of CorelDRAW won't open CDR files made in version 5 or earlier. I have some ancient CorelDRAW CDR files if I ever need to open them I have to use Inkscape to do that. But it's still not 100% accurate and may never be. CorelDRAW has grown better in its last couple or so versions at opening Illustrator files and exporting AI files that will open properly in Illustrator. It makes moving artwork between the two applications an adventure.

The two applications overlap each other with most features but then there are numerous other areas where the two have unique features or capabilities not found in the rival. I use both CorelDRAW and Adobe Illustrator heavily. I had to uninstall and reinstall the whole Creative Suite (or Cloud) package in order for Illustrator to run again. There was one instance where I tried to open a CDR file directly in Illustrator and something happened that completely trashed my Illustrator installation. The capabilitiy was around for only a short amount of time because of bugs. Some years ago Adobe Illustrator had a CorelDRAW import filter.

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