I fully agree with a lot of that. It's the modern Deluxe Paint in a lot of ways.
I've had web developers hear "paint.net" and think Microsoft Paint (maybe the ".net" makes them think Microsoft), and why am I using something so basic?
> insane amount of people who buy an expensive DSLR
I'm not with you at all on that one. DSLR sales have plummeted every year for the last decade. "Normies", as you put it, think their smartphone camera is a high-end camera and all they could possibly ever need for taking top-quality photographs. The appalling noise their tiny sensors produce seems to have become so normalised, they don't even notice.
I've had web developers hear "paint.net" and think Microsoft Paint (maybe the ".net" makes them think Microsoft), and why am I using something so basic?
> insane amount of people who buy an expensive DSLR
I'm not with you at all on that one. DSLR sales have plummeted every year for the last decade. "Normies", as you put it, think their smartphone camera is a high-end camera and all they could possibly ever need for taking top-quality photographs. The appalling noise their tiny sensors produce seems to have become so normalised, they don't even notice.