I recently made the leap in the opposite direction: after being asked to pay 59€ to continue using the app I downloaded Tower 2. So far I'm not missing anything they introduced since then. I'm actually happy about the old app icon.
When the warning that the license is running out popped up some time ago I expected the app to still work. Just that I won't get any new updates (like Sketch). But no: it just stops working and demands more money. Pew....
Now I start to understand that licensing models like JetBrains' "perpetual fallback license" are really fair. Of course, the "buy once and get all updates" licenses which were available back in the day when apps such as Sublime Text were called "shareware" (actually Sublime Text still has a similar license: if you buy it, you get 3 years of updates) were even better, but hey, software developers need to eat too...
I share the love for hand-made svg. But it has its limits when graphics need complexity.
In those cases I use https://github.com/RazrFalcon/svgcleaner-gui to clean up the svg file after export.
you're missing a lot if you're into web design. of course, content is king and google fucked up big times by not having a proper fallback. but that parallax scrolling is the best I've seen so far https://www.google.com/ideas/products/digital-attack-map/
The parallax scrolling on that page is mediocre IMO.
It's unnoticeable when not using smooth scrolling (my personal default). Not a huge problem for a design feature to be unnoticeable though.
When smooth-scrolling using the middle mouse button on Chrome/Linux, it doesn't update dynamically as it scrolls; the background snaps into position when scrolling stops. In Firefox/Linux, it does update dynamically with middle mouse smooth scrolling, but jerkily. It's noticeably bad in both browsers.
