Vibe coded alternatives have the potential to match functionality of their closed source originals, while being free and open source. LLMs don't get tired or bored, unlike human open source maintainers.

PhotoCraft repo is a couple of weeks old and in early alpha, and already seems to be significantly better than any other open source image editor I tried. And it also opens instantly, while both Photoshop and GIMP take 5+ seconds.