It's all about how you use it and your risk tolerance. If you only ever open files you created, only ever importing images you created, there's probably no risk? But if you're ever opening files you receive from others, I think there's reason to be suspicious.

For example, a lot of websites let you upload pictures in bulk to crop or resize them. I've used a lot of these myself. It's not impossible to imagine that a malicious website like this could embed something in an image that exploits security holes on an unpatched word processor to download ransomware or something.

I'm not even a security person and I usually don't really care about this kind of stuff. But since it's easier and easier to publish exploits for software now, I think I need to start taking it more seriously.