> Yet you don't even care about Krita and Gimp, you enjoy being enshittified and you know it.

Well, I'm not familiar with Krita....but with GIMP, that's more of a PhotoShop open source "competitor"...and while it has improved over the years, I'd still take Affinity Photo over either of those as a pixel editor.

I believe Pixelmator is a RAW photo workflow editor....much like Lightroom is for Adobe....or my favorite, Capture One....of working with RAW images, and being able to do FAR more detailed edited to col

I mean, good for a small group of indie devs who have managed to make just an amazing image editing app. I have used Pixelmator for a decade at least and love it. And yeah, I use Keita (and Rebel) to do all my digital artworks. At the same time, I hate that this amazing program is being swallowed by Apple and potentially as you say enshittified. Damn, this is one I hoped would never happen. FFS Apple, please let others innovate too?

> Yet you don't even care about Krita and Gimp, you enjoy being enshittified and you know it.

Gimp takes all the interesting and useful image processing features and presents them to the user as... numbers and named options.

Taking the simplest action, paint (with the pen tool), you can set the numeric value of size, spacing, hardness, and force... among many other options such as fade length and smooth stroke. You can also set the "Incremental" and "dynamics" flags.

I noticed the complete opaqueness of all of this while viewing a YouTube video tutorial about another graphics program on a tablet, wher

They did and they killed it: Aperture, which was a very good and reasonably priced competitor to Adobe’s Lightroom which is now only available in Adobes stupid subscription model, and not single license form.

I expect the same treatment Dark Sky got when it got turned into Weather. Apple has a tendency to pick up very good Mac/iOS first apps, and then let their internal UX attack it and remove every feature that people actually use because they're "simplifying". Which results in it being simplified into nothingness.

Which is unfortunate, Pixelmator is a top notch set of tools.

I'd be much more impressed if they were specifically saying they'd be like Claris, owned by Apple but left independent as a company to co

> Adobe's only good competition is going away now.

Err...depending if you are wanting RAW workflow or pixel editor, I'd argue there are still VERY valid (if not better 'pro') options....things like Capture One and On1 RAW editors....or Affinity Photo for more pixel editing (like PS).