Hi all. I've been wading through this thread as I too have missed envelope warping/ object-distort / perspective since I left AI for AD, and while I wait for those hard working engineers at Serif to implement these features into this fine program, I have been trying every other possible work around I come across. I found this today and though it may have been shared before, I'll post it here: www.photopea.com
It's an online tool for editing PSD, XCF, Sketch and CDR formats, but I opened up an SVG file and had little trouble warping it as i saw fit. Not a solution, I know, but it works -today.
Thank you,
Joe