can all of you say that competitor to photoshop made by AI native teams is impossible in 10 years?

Yes, because UX is not an exact science.

Aperture discontinued, one of the engineers in the team built a replacement, yet it's not Aperture.

Pixelmator did the "impossible", Apple bought them instead of doubling down on their talent and resources.

Small yet powerful editors like Acorn and Camera Bag Pro has no practical competitors in their spaces.

Technical problems are easy, yet humans and things involving human interaction is hard. You can't solve non-tangible problems by remixing tangible bits of code.

Heck, even Photoshop revamped a couple of dialog boxes, and a number of people got angry, because it behaves slightly differently and throws decades of muscle memory out of the window, and that costs people considerable amount of time.

I think AI will do, like, 90% of them in 10 years. With the last 10% takes much longer (15? 20?).

I am upset with the fact that we are accumulating code debit faster than ever. In the most optimistic view, we could pay off those debit in around 10+ years (assume somebody care pay the money to buy token to clean up those).

That meant we need to suffer 10+ years of low quality code and software.

The competitors to Photoshop right now are promoted image manipulation tools, not another menus-and-layers based Photoshop clone.

it won't matter by then. There won't be any artists to use them!