Canva Video Editor Is Too Laggy and Unpredictable for Paid Subscribers
Canva's video editor suffers from severe lag and unpredictable behavior that makes basic editing impossible, leading paid subscribers to regret their purchase and consider returning to Adobe tools. The experience gap between Canva's marketing promise and video editing reality is a real product quality problem. Single report but with payment context.
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