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Let's be clear, it's not that you need to use Adobe products, it's not that nothing will be an alternative to them, it's that current FOSS alternatives just aren't feature compatible, no matter how much the lay person likes to pretend they are. That's fair, and that's why I dual boot windows; some proprietary products are just better, and in a competitive industry, you can't afford to use subpar tools.
But there's no reason the FOSS version can't be as good or better, it's just a matter of funding and vision, which are both hard to come by in a non-profit world. I hope that one day we will see a cohesive suite of tools that can replace Adobe products, but I fully acknowledge that gimp 2, krita, inkscape, and blender ain't it.
Eh, partially agreed but Adobe does have a stranglehold on the market due to proprietary encoding. The world still runs on their licensed filetypes and that's a big hurdle for FOSS to overcome. A paradigm shift could happen but a lot is stacked up against it for now. Certainly not an issue that's unable to be solved but we need some seriously clever minds dedicated to the problem.