That's the beauty of Illustrator . It's meant to be used however you need or want to use it. That's it. If you need to create vector illustrations with thousands of anchor points that take you dozens of hours to complete, then Illustrator is … Vectorize client artwork . How many times have you had a client send you a 96px square raster logo file and ask you to blow it up to a thousand pixels or more. You ask them for the original artwork and they tell you that is the original artwork .