3D, glitch, crack, party, split face, and more, inside Illustrator, with a dial for every detail. Stack effects, tune them until they look like nobody else's, and save the result as your own style. Your text stays text.
Apply an effect, and the text is still text. Drag the sliders until it looks like yours, then save it as a style you can reuse.
Every effect is an Illustrator live effect on the type itself, not an outlined copy. Fix a typo, change the font, the effect follows.
Strokes, fills, gradients and live effects, in the Appearance panel where you expect them. Save any result as a Graphic Style and reuse it.
A 3D extrusion with hidden edges removed is an afternoon by hand. Here it's an angle and a depth, and it updates as you type.