This is the problem…the software is open source project worked on by developers to produce software that edits images as they want to edit them with tools that they have designed. Their goal is not to make a difficult task easy its to make of an image what they want and we as the users get the privilege to tag along. If this software also offers utility for us then we adopt it and have the job to learn how to use it. Of course to an extent they will try to craft the tool to be efficient in the way it works but this might not always mean simple or easy. I think this is a nuance that gets forgotten…
We as users can make suggestions and those suggestions may be adopted as collective scrutiny and discussion evolves and if the dev feels there is merit. Often to me comments made about darktable and what it can or cannot do are framed as if people were looking at a piece of software from a commercial enterprise that they had paid for and that is something different. There you have paid for something and the company should have an obligation to serve you as the user…