[thatxliner]

I found Darktable absolutely amazing, although the learning curve is incredibly steep.

Some ex-maintainers hated the direction of Darktable and thus made their own fork, namely https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel

[dllu]

Original founder of darktable, hanatos, went and made vkdt which fixes a bunch of my pet peeves with darktable:

https://github.com/hanatos/vkdt

https://jo.dreggn.org/vkdt/

* Vulkan instead of OpenCL has way better performance.

* Graph-based editing akin to Blender. This fixes the issue of it being annoying and weird to reorder modules in darktable

It is, of course, still early on in its development and way less mature and featureful than Darktable.