CizreK said:
That's user error rather than anything to blame on Adobe. People are lazy as hell. By default, if you drag and drop an image file into an Illustrator document the image will be placed as a linked file. It doesn't take much effort to click the little "embed" button on the menu bar. Apparently that's too much to ask from people who are fixing to send art files to someone else.
CorelDRAW embeds dragged/dropped images by default, which has its own drawbacks.
I can waste all kinds of time going down a long list of things where CorelDRAW outdoes Illustrator and other points where Illustrator completely beats CorelDRAW. But I'm not going to do that.