Indeed, especially because Krita is terrible for a lot of what I think of as "image editing"; I'd much rather use Gimp for work like that. Though I do quite lik

Indeed, especially because Krita is terrible for a lot of what I think of as "image editing"; I'd much rather use Gimp for work like that. Though I do quite like the recent AI stuff available to Krita at the moment; e.g. there's a plugin that lets you "object select" performed by AI, so e.g. you click on a person's shirt and it selects the shirt, or add other parts of the person (or draw a box) and get the person themselves, separate from the background. Or click on a bird, or speaker, or whatever. And you can use the ai-diffusion stuff to remove it, easier than the old heal tool techniques. (The selection is of course not perfect but a great compliment to the other selection tools that more or less overlap with Gimp's, but I prefer Gimp's knobs and behaviors after the selection. And I'm sure Photoshop has similar AI stuff by now, but I remember over the years it's seemed like a lot of stuff crops up in open source first. e.g. I think for quite a while "heal" / "smart patch" was just a script-fu plugin..) I just appreciate that there are many options, and can talk to each other pretty well. If one becomes unusable, I have others, and sometimes there are newer ones. I did a stage banner project last December but I had Gimp, Krita, and Inkscape all open at the same time. (With a quick use of an old version of Illustrator in Wine to export into an illustrator template matching the dimension outlines and particular color space the printing company needed...) Photoshop tried to be the everything tool, and it probably is and will continue to be the best kitchen sink (and if I knew it better and had a license, it probably could have sufficed by itself for my project), but for any specific thing there's going to be something else that's better for at least that thing (maybe even one of Adobe's other products, like Illustrator). Krita isn't competing with Photoshop so much as with Photoshop's usefulness in drawing and making art, and in that space are also Clip Studio Paint or Procreate on iPads, both quite popular with hobbyist and professional artists. Gimp isn't competing so much on the art creation side (or even making simple animations like Krita lets you do more easily) as it is on the editing and manipulation side. And when editing camera raws, you'd use Lightroom/Darktable/RawTherapee. Inkscape is vector graphics, a whole other use case and competitive landscape. (Speaking of old/dead software, I remember using Xara Xtreme LX for a while, it was really slick...)