Even if we talk only about the User Inteface of Adobe Illustator it still has many tools (to be topical lets say Layers for example) that Inkscape doesnt have (yet ;).

It's not a UI issue, it's just missing functionality. This demonstrates that it's difficult to tell apart these two aspects, and for this reason, even though I do consider that the basics are more convenient to work with in Inkscape than in AI, I don't claim that it's more convenient overall - because this will always incite someone to talk about our missing functionality. So let's stay focused on specific issues. After we accumulate enough such small advantages in many areas, the overall balance will be more often judged in our favor (looks like this starts happening already, but in my opinion it's a bit premature).

My point is that I would urge caution when claiming Inkscape is better than anything because there is nothing stopping people from using both. Inkscape can complement and become part of a graphic designers toolset, think of the users, comparisons dont really benifit them.

"Use together" is good in theory, but do you know many people who use e.g. both Emacs and vi on equal basis?

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