I think you might be reading too much into our comments. Personally, I don't want an Illustrator clone. However, currently many people are forced to use such an application to finish off work or send work to the printers. So, the point is that you should most definitely not have to use Illustrator just to get a decent CMYK vector file to send to the printers. This is somthing that XaraX should have covered. You should not have to use Illustrator to import a file and convert it to a legacy format to import it into XaraX. XaraX should have modern filters. Mostly it's a case of finishing off what's already (almost) there.