Yeah! Photoshop is fixedā¦again. Until it breaksā¦again. 
Better learn native tools like Gimp, it is far better if you are willing to take the learning curve
True, but for people who have already invested in a Photoshop licenseā¦
also true of course, but you can quit that monthly subscription and use a free tool
A matter of choice
It isnāt. It barely matches Photoshop from 20 years ago. A lot of people hate Adobe with passion, but thereās a reason why this āamazing free alternative that only needs a little bit of relearningā hasnāt taken over.
Is it because it doesnāt have a billion-dollar company behind it?
Or is it because it doesnāt have open source funding from governments across the world so that users have access to top-grade software they pay for through taxes?
Itās one of the above, or both if youāre fancy. 
Iām gonna 
though.
That puts it on its head a little bit. The billion-dollar company exists because of the product, not the other way around.
Also the purpose of governments isnāt funding mostly private sector demand through taxes. Until we live in a social utopia itās fine to have companies facilitating the production of goods.
So, I would say non of the above.
We have many great OSS products that are sponsored by outside entities (money, code contributions, hiring devs, ā¦). Sometimes these tools acquired a decent market share or even became the tool used in the industry.
Gimp isnāt in that position. It has serious shortcomings. For whatever reason, and we can argue a lot about the āwhyā, it would be foolish pretending otherwise.
I donāt use GIMP or Photoshop but Iāve heard Affinity Photo works well via Wine and is pretty close Photoshop and thereās people that have written installation scripts for it to have an easy install with Wine.
Affinity provides a good product, people asking for Linux support for a long time.
Essentially itās the same story. Gimp doesnāt cut it for a certain group of people who make a living in that space. Even being āfreeā doesnāt outweigh the existing feature and productivity shortcomings.
The billion-dollar company exists because of the people. The product is backed by a billion-dollar company because the people decided to make it the standard.
It then got funded by companies and the industry on a whole.
Okay, just needed to set that straight. Now I will really .
PS: We all fund Adobe, Microsoft, etc. already.
Our governments pay them for volume licenses.
Oh, and lastly, utopia is not just a foolās dream, but logically impossible.
Imperfect cannot create perfect.
Yes. The people discovered itās a reliable product. Then they build companies on top of that. Just look at Linux kernel. People figured out itās a good product. It then got funded by companies and the industry on a whole.
Thatās how it works with good products meeting peopleās demand. Now, if we compare, maybe that can tell us something.