I have used Illustrator since version 4 on Windows (on floppies) ….and when my change from 8 to 10 happened…I was totally lost with pathfinder until the day I discovered the “new” expand button… I appreciate the ability to edit vectors (in a combined pathfinder boolean) but I miss the simplicity of the earlier versions…
don’t get me started on the way they handle compound paths as layers now!….:)
Michael
(Pseudo-old school graphic guy)