&gt; you can pry lightroom from my cold dead hands.<p>Now, this right here is the chicken and egg issue with professional quality production software in the open source world.<p>What the open source pro software suites need is more professionals using them. I get it, you have a job to do and no precious time to spend on learning new tools or deal with bugs. But even if you put in an hour every now and then, or check out how has Gimp&#x2F;Darktable&#x2F;Blender progressed in the year or two since you last touched it, you can help.<p>The guys who are working on these software most likely are not professional photographers or digital artists, they are programmers with a keen interest on the topic. They have limited time on their hands and they primarily target their own use cases. They don&#x27;t have big budgets like Adobe and other companies do.<p>I applaud OP taking the time and the effort to get comfortable with open source tools. He has contributed a few excellent blog posts on moving from proprietary pro software (I particularly liked the one where he describes what he did in Gimp to get comfortable coming from a Photoshop background). He&#x27;ll probably get in touch with the developers in one way or another, to give feedback or submit bug reports, perhaps even patches. This is valuable work!<p>Free software is a team effort, you need to chip in if you want to see things improve.