Macromedia Freehand, in particular deleting bezier points but keeping the shape intact (ie simplifying).<p>Illustrator <i>still</i> hasn&#x27;t quite caught up. For any illustration, it&#x27;s useful to have as few control points as possible. This is particularly useful when making SVGs for the web; it renders faster, and an ability to hand edit the SVG is useful for animation etc. Every font design package has this feature; Illustrator, even now, has nothing that does anything close to the same degree of accuracy. Occasionally they&#x27;ll roll out an improvement in &#x27;simplify&#x27;, but I find it staggering that they can&#x27;t just implement what is a fairly simple feature.