Unity exec tells Ars he’s on a mission to earn back developer trust

Interview: "It was not our intent to nickel-and-dime it, but it came across that way."

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[darkdog]

Um, right. The only way GIMP will Photoshop behind in the dust soon is if you redefine the word "soon" to be the one Elon Musk was using when he described the time schedule for Tesla's FSD. Back when Adobe launched the subscription model, photographers and graphics designers cried bloody murder...and dejectedly went back to using Photoshop, because it was the only viable solution out there. Life hasn't changed today. GIMP doesn't even register for most non-Linux users. Don't believe me, go look at DPReview's forums. Searching for "photoshop" returns 180K results while "gimp" returns 9800 results, and the first two threads to hit are from people saying they found GIMP too hard.

Things are getting off-topic here, but IMO things are changing: I relied on Photoshop for many years, but I haven't touched anything Adobe for years now; I'm a happy user of the Affinity suite. Sure, it's not open source, but it's not a subscription and considering its features it's definitely good enough, and much better value, for most prosumers. I'd like to believe that Adobe's greed opened the door to such competition.

So, to bring this back to Unity, its enshittification might just help something "good enough" to grow. It doesn't have to replace Unity; even just being an alternative worth considering would be great. And Godot seems to have the most potential ATM.