Software that is free and has 60,000 user-created plugins and does everything, but "it does everything" does not clarify how to do any particular thing:
oh well, it still beats the pants off software that costs $30/month and does one thing
Any time I use an app like obsidian, i have to resist the urge to read guides or install plugins or do anything other than "get used to using it regularly". Otherwise, I spend all my time on "fiddling with it" and then stop using it once I get bored instead of "using it for intended purpose".
but sometimes there's a really game-changing plugin that every serious user has installed, like G'MIC for Gimp, and if i don't look how will I know... [ten hours of complete distraction follow, zero projects are finished]
Having used it for 15 or 16 years by now, yeah, pretty much.
I always found GIMP pretty easy to use as a former photoshop user, but Blender 3D was totally impenetrable when you first used it. You'd open a tutorial like "How to model a simple cube" and it would be like "Press ctrl alt k to open Cube Mode before opening the 'fabrication' menu and selecting 'regular hexahedron' . . .". And any time you were like 'it seems like the UI might need some work to be accessible to new users,' everyone would be like, you actually don't get how logical and efficient this UI is. It's actually because you're bad at computers.
Then I come back ten years later and they've fixed the fucking UI! The program is now usable by regular human beings without terminal linux brain!
