Ok, if you think Illustrator is so superior, why are you afraid of either releasing FreeHand or keeping it developed?
The fact of the matter is that you have chose to bully Illustrator into dominance instead of letting us creatives decide for ourselves. That is unfortunate for your image (Adobe=the new Microsoft!) as well as for us designers who no longer have the proper tools to work with. Why can't you just admit that Illustrator is slower, more power-hungry and sluggish than FreeHand?! Don't get me wrong, I still use Illustrator for some things as its superior control over beizér curves beats none, but then I use FreeHand to color, layout and creat the rest as it's more immediate, quicker and creates lighter files. Fancy shadows, extrusions, effects? Besides not being my style, I do all that in Photoshop and then save on a single layer and use in FreeHand or Xpress (another brillantly light program!!) and don't bog down my documents with psd files and loads of levels that I'm not interested in keeping nor need anymore.
So, stop being such a bully and give me my crayons back! Chickens!! :-)