While I agree it's better to use a font editor especially not only Glyphs but Fontlab or Fontcreator I don't think it's fair to compare it to illustrator for typedesign, let alone calling it primitive crap. If you had to do lettering there is nothing under the sun you can't do with illustrator that a font editor can, nothing. As far as drawing goes the only differences I've found wrt typedesign is that font editors have tools allow better control for precision as opposed to illustrator's sort of eyeballing method. For instance illustrator has had tunni lines for yrs, back to CS5, hell maybe even CS4, however fontlab incorporated it only 2 yrs ago but fontlab did it in a way where you had better control of it even numerically. Illustrator wasn't made for typedesign but you can get about a quarter of the features from font editors by using plugins in illustrator. So while it may take a lot of eyeballing illustrator's bezier handling is just fine, just not numerically controlled.