It’s not proof that blocking the merger was good, but it does undermine many of the arguments against blocking it.

I’m all for the government getting out of the way of business, but we’ve seen a large amount of consolidation in many software categories.

Adobe’s market share is pretty extreme already in the creative software space, and I think it is reasonable for the government to step in to try to prevent further consolidation.

I agree with you that it’s really unknowable whether blocking or not blocking was a better choice. But if we only made decisions based on knowing the outcome, we’d never do anything.