On my main computer (a Mac) I switched completely away from Adobe for PDFs. I am pleased to say there is at least one viable alternative for my particular use case. It isn't perfect but it's viable. (It also has a dumb AI feature but I ignore it and it is not intrusive.) pdfexpert.com
Did I mistakenly check an option that says, "please assume I don't know what I'm doing, and can't read?" I get annoyed by all of the AI offers for "help" anyway but the tone really seemed to suggest that I might want to be careful with all of those pages, like I didn't know what I was in for.
I opened a PDF on my non-usual computer, which opened it in Adobe Reader (which I have switched from on my main computer). The first thing it did was to offer up a warning that the document I had opened was long, and maybe I ought to have its AI summarize it for me. I mean, really.