It's owned by Canva now though, so I don't have any more faith in it.

oh dang, that went by me completely, TIL!

I really hope Photomator/Pixelmator won't get absorbed into the Photos app, now knowing that Affinity has also been gobbled up :(

Same! I had immediately considered it to switch to, and then learn that. Nothing is sacred.

i tried them with fuji 50mb raw files, it was super slow compared to capture one