Shouldn’t they be busy screwing other things? Don’t need doors flying off.

GIMP suffers the same problem. If you’re used to CS, anything else is going to be a horrific experience.

I’ve not tried Inkscape. Is it a bit more friendly?

As you’re dealing with digital print output, Scribus may be a good option. That’s layout (something of a mix of Illustrator and InDesign), not image editing, but cropping photos is easily done in a variety of FOSS without having to be subjected to the learning curve of GIMP (so long as your RIP can translate RGB into CMYK, which was a solved problem in the aughts). I’ve admittedly only played around with Scribus a bit, but from what I can tell from your use cases, you’re not looking for the bells and whistles like trapping one needs for offset.

Are those small oranges currently in season?

The increase they won is higher than any wage I’ve earned. Happy as fuck for them, as that’s a life-changing bump.

As a topic, this has always amused me. It’s not like climate change will affect a few mountains and leave the rest of us unscathed.

This. It’s not well-advertised in KDE – I accidentally discovered it through a key combo – but it was good enough (i.e., Win 11-level) in KDE 5 to make the switch painless on desktop. Where both have issues is apps insisting there are arbitrary dimensional minimums for functionality and refusing to adhere to positioning. This is most egregious in messaging programs.