Nobody really needs a perfect Photoshop clone, they need an image editor for their particular workflow. Photoshop excels, in a way, because it handle almost every potential workflow -- one product for many users.
But if I'm vibe-coding an app for myself, I only want it to what I want it to do. One product for one user.
What workflow do you have that no existing image editing application will suffice?
That's been the question running in my mind reading this thread. I'm wondering how many of these slimmed down custo versions are just some frontend written for ImageMagick.