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So a fun thing is happening to all the ArtCraft projects (The Adobe/MSFT/etc clean room clones). They're attracting a ton of contributors, and are rapidly improving. If you tried any of the apps a few days ago when announced, they're all a lot better today, and will keep improving.

The photocraft app (aka the Photoshop clone) is probably going to hit over 2,000 changes in the next day. It was only released 10 days ago. Over 1,000 of the changes released so far are fixes. If it had bugs when you tried it last week, there is a good chance they may be gone.

Large numbers of contributors are flocking to improve these apps... At one level this is analogous to what happened with @npmx.dev earlier this year... but instead of building a better npm, they're building a better suite of enterprise and design apps.