Kinda reminds me of another profession that likes to get lifetime customers by starting young. This has lead to a couple of other issues as well, which also has made users more susceptible of having to stay with the software that they learned long ago, because they really know the software more (or atleast more comfortable, typically those go hand in hand) and don't want to switch or feel like they can't.
Here is the thing, as more and more people use alternatives, especially those that actually know what they are doing (which in all honesty aren't the initial typical customers of those alternatives, some are, but I would say the majority are not), quality goes up in a variety of areas as more people use it (not always, but generally speaking). I remember when Unity did their oopsy, that lead to a lot of people using Godot, quality all the way around (dev, stability, tutorials etc) has been improving because of that for Godot.
It's a hard thing though for software that's 30+ yrs old (I think Ai is close to 40, wasn't it 85?).
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