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by CorpusCalcium 2999 days ago
Very few people can devote the significant time necessary to make free professional-grade stuff just for the sake of a wider audience.

And unless you're an artist who does that yourself, it's a bit much to ask others to meet your needs for free like that in the first place.

If non-dev artists want to see that gap close, they need to contribute, not just wait for mana from heaven.

No, that doesn't have to mean actually writing the software. But it could mean paying someone else to do the coding, even if the software is ultimately released as OSS.