To be honest I didn’t even bother reading the links. Mainly because he was being an asshole and I don’t owe him my time.

You can make your point without being an asshole about it.

So you sitting there in your cozy armchair know better than somebody in the industry?

Come on, don’t be an asshole.

As somebody who has been trying to decided which of the RAW photo editors to use, I can tell you that Darktable has a steep learning curve over Lightroom. The UI is incredibly dense and the names of sliders don’t make sense unless you’re an image science expert.