I just haven't used photoshop or illustrstor in ages so I have no idea what I'm missing out on, tried inkscape and gimp a little, both remind me of blender in that they are not intuitive and require watching some tutorials to figure out how to do anything

Which also goes for nodes, but adobe programs always felt a bit more intuitive and easy to just hop in and figure stuff out, like if you knew one itd be even easier to use another