So far, the feedback on GoLive 9 doesn't seem to be coming from people who actually used it.

This is not the old GoLive. It does bear some resemblances, but is much changed. That will probably annoy people who don't like change, but it might come as a welcome improvement to people accustomed to Photoshop, and it is certainly a leap forward from the old GoLive. In many ways, the new GUI reminds me of Photoshop.

I'm not even sure it should be called by its old name. It would be more accurate to call it version one of a completely new, advanced WYSIWG website authoring program, inspired by the old GoLive and Photoshop. It looks like it was rewritten from the ground up. Yet they have made it similar enough to GoLive CS (v8) that one who is familiar with the last version, can pretty much muddle through and get a website built without having to take the time off to restudy and learn a whole new interface. GoLive 9 seems to be designed for the likes of me. There is so much new stuff, I feel like a kid in a candy store.
The way it handles color, the way it handles text, CSS, layers, tables and so on, just blows me away. I'm currently working on the most complicated website job I have ever tackled. A repurpose of something that was designed in inDesign for print and pdf. Everything about it resists turning it into a website. I don't think I could have done it with the old version. I would not have even tried with Dreamweaver, as it would have been completely beyond my knowledge of code. But GoLive 9, despite my unfamiliarity with what amounts to a brand new program, is turning out to be up to the job.

There is even a new version of the "Menu Machine" extend script that works seamlessly with it, and has let me build a complex multi-level dropdown menu without having to know any Javascript.

So, me, I'm glad there is an alternative to Dreamweaver. I've used both, and was even on the beta testing team of Dreamweaver, way back when, but Dreamweaver seems more slanted toward coders than artists and designers, and I'm an artist. It was too technical for me. I can look under the hood and tweak code when I have to, and I've had to do that a couple of times with this but I'd rather work with a program that doesn't demand it quite so much.

I really hope Adobe continues to develop GoLive.

Doug