> I once tried to use GIMP and gave up after 2 hours and got the task done in figma in 10 minutes.

You would have been just as lost, if not more, in Photoshop (if you had never used it before.) You were doing a simple job that should have been done in a simple program.

It's been like this forever. Always been "photoshop but harder to use".

Friendly reminder to everyone that https://photopea.com exists. If you are used to Photoshop, then the UI will be quite familiar.

I only need to do somewhat basic stuff these days, so photopea.com is more than enough for me. However, now that I look it has tons of new features. Nothing to install, is ad-sponsored by default, and runs entirely client-side.

IIRC, this is a lone developer, who has previously refused what seemed like lucrative catch & kill acquisition offers.

Here is a post with lots of info:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33334521