Yeah, because nothing says “success” like buying your competitor almost 10 years to the day after a federal judge declares you can’t buy any competitors for a decade.
An example of why Freehand is far better than anything even without any recent development: Processing a complex SVG
Adobe InDesign is a much more consistent program with a much better UI than Adobe Illustrator, because it’s based on the Aldus standards which were modeled on the drawing program designed by Altsys.
Moreover, Fontographer is still available for sale, and is much the same drawing interface.