“I’m not sure why Premier got stuck with such a bum rap, especially since AE and PS are so highly rated.”
That’s what I never could understand. Adobe obviously produces great software in design. I could never figure out why people couldn’t grasp the concept that Adobe could eventually duplicate that success with an NLE.
Premiere got a bum rap was because it did have its problems years ago and word of mouth gets around and all of suddenly people who never used Premiere are bashing it in 2011. Herd mentality
People won’t touch premiere because they had a terrible experience with it 10 years ago, BUT they are just fine with using other Adobe products. To me that doesn’t make any sense. You obviously are aware that the company is capable of producing good design software. Shouldn’t be a shock that the software would eventually mature into something very good.