Adobe Needs an Overhaul

In middle school way back in 2003, I had my first introduction to the world of filmmaking. My 8th grade history teacher had an iMac with iMovie for the class to use on certain projects — and one of my favorite assignments recreating historical events using video cameras the school provided to us. It was then I became fascinated by the shooting and editing process. Of course being 13 years old meant I was broke so instead of an iMac, my first computer was an E-machines desktop tower with 512mb of ram, a Pentium D cpu, and whopping 80GB HDD. At the time, Windows XP came a free video editor called Windows Movie Maker. I used Windows Movie Maker for a few years making BMX and skate videos to post on my website, “obsessioncrew.com” — so very tacky yet, those were the days I’ll fondly remember as exciting times messing about and learning new things.
At some point, I had to upgrade to a NLE a bit more substantial, so then I made a switch to Sony Vegas. Which to this day, was my favorite editing program. Sony has since sold the program to a company called Magix, due to shrinking demand and user base. Ultimately, years later, I was left with no choice but to try Adobe Premiere Pro. I had actually started using Adobe After Effects years prior in order to create and export anything dealing with motion graphics or visual effects compositing; so I always assumed Adobe Premiere would play nice. To this day, almost 20 years later and I still loathe dealing with Adobe Premiere a majority of my time. Like many users, I've dealt with persistent crashing, improper hardware usage, corrupt project files, underwhelming features, pricing tiers and so on — it’s all a big headache.
I shoot primarily on Blackmagic cameras a company I've championed since their cinema camera release in 2012. Like Apple, Blackmagic’s hardware and software are beautifully optimized to achieve fantastic performance in Da Vinci Resolve, their native editing program, which comes FREE when you purchase their camera’s. I've resisted Da Vinci Resolve since it was initially being fleshed out with constant updates and an ever evolving UI. Last I used it, it lacked a lot of features I needed at the time some 10+ years ago. Adobe has rolled out several hundred updates since that time and with every update I cringe knowing it will most likely break something…somewhere.
Needless to say, I've stuck with Adobe since they've pretty much cornered the market for a full production package, even though it barely works as intended.
It's now 2023 and I've seen new video editing apps for both mobile and desktop that run 10X faster, are more affordable, and offer similar/equivalent features. For what adobe costs it’s getting to a point where I may consider switching one day.