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In CS4 there were improvements for us artists in particular. Implementing the Open GL canvas was big. Drawing fast is incredibly smoother w/ open gl acceleration, and you can rotate and throw the canvas around. Multiple window management is much easier. There are less steps for many important things, and lots of great presets that are time in a bottle. I use both it and CS3 in different studios, and always miss CS4 when I’m not using it.
Now they’re not cheap updates, so if you don’t study or make use of the improvements, I can understand the irritation. Either way, Photoshop is the most useful and robust cornerstone app in the majority of graphic artists workflow. We’d all get to eat less without the innovations they’ve pioneered. I’m sure they’ve got more tricks in the bag.