> they’re worried about AI replacing their tools. I’m worried about AI building their tools.

Touché

Software as a Service is the model Microsoft Office and Adobe products went to with subscriptions. I can use LibreOffice instead of MS Office, but GIMP isn't the same as Photoshop, etc. There needs to be a moonshot project to make GIMP and others as easy to use as Photoshop and have the same features.

Yeah but that's on Adobe. If your business model is shite, extracting revenue from users in unjustifiable ways, a developer is, over a weekend or months, in a fit of spite-driven development, going to take your lunch. Charging a subscription fee for a flashlight app isn't going to work anymore. Good. It shouldn't have in the first place.

Adobe couldn't even run Creative Cloud properly, and dropped support for their cloud storage, iirc.