The alternatives have always been crap and unusable and incompatible with actual professional software and this is coming from someone who loathes Windows/Adobe and tried very hard for more than a decade to not rely on Windows-only products. I know, Microsoft doesn't respect its own specs, the maintainers do a heroic job, it's free, etc. Still doesn't change the usability issues, and they've been going on for literal decades.

Funnily enough, two common retorts against criticism of user-centric open source software are:

>stop complaining and feel free to open a PR if you're unsatisfied

Seems like many maintainers are now getting what they wished for and they are somehow unhappy about it. Ooops

>feel free to start your own project

Seems like the artcraft dude literally just did that and people are somehow unhappy about it. Ooops