No. Photoshop is usually faster and produces a better quality alignment and (optionally) merge for the general case of "I have these photos, please make them in

No. Photoshop is usually faster and produces a better quality alignment and (optionally) merge for the general case of "I have these photos, please make them into a single image." Hugin has more tunable options, so it's easier to do more stages of an advanced stitching workflow in it, but I wouldn't suggest investing time in Hugin unless you want to do a specific crazy thing.