In essence, we have no longer have to check out, download, edit, save, and then upload-replace pdf files in order to edit them in SharePoint Online. Now we simply need to convince our companies to pay for additional Adobe services (and have IT certify Adobe cloud) in order to edit pdf files from our browsers?
Why are SPO and Office web apps so slow to adopt features its competitors adopted years ago? I get that Adobe has a stranglehold on PDF, even though it's original use (print only/scans) is no longer feasible. However, forcing MS clients to use file shares and local storage to edit cloud files of a certain file type is not a responsible strategy and shows how MS is still not client-focused. Furthermore, the fact that new features are supposedly rolled out to cloud platform faster than on-prem, yet we can only edit and open PDF files in Adobe client if stored on-prem.
So, when can we expect to see GDocs style concurrent multi-user text cursors in MS web apps and when can we expect, if ever, to be able to open and edit PDF files stored in Adobe client that are stored in SharePoint Online?