Same. PhotoPea going open source would be absolutely amazing. I'd love to see it released AGPL, but I'm guessing that isn't likely to happen.

You can export your files to PSD format (among others) any time. Even if it's pulled, you don't lose your work.

It's more about learning to use the tool fluently.

It's almost the same as photoshop, what's there to learn?

Yep. It’s nearly a perfect product, but it’s a complete nonstarter for me because it’s not open source. I’ll happily stick with GIMP because of that.

You've decided that for a product to be usable it has to be open source?

Yes, whenever possible.

Isn't there a lot of value between possible and good in terms of productivity or appeal when picking any tools though? There are plenty of tools I do use that are open source and free, but for a fair price and suitable value proposition, I'm going to pick something that I'll get the investment return from regardless of whether it's open source or not