I get my moneys worth out of my photoshop sub in both income and money saved performing tasks that would otherwise cost a lot of money. This argument has been had a million times before, and I understand why it's not right for you, but for me and a million other artists it's hard to ween away from the teet of photoshop. It's great, has a great tools and most of us have over 15-20 years using the same tools yet improved and modernized constantly. I am happy fruityloops is a one stop shop for you, but that's apples and oranges no pun intended. I understand your frustration that photoshop doesn't have a low resolution indexed color workflow in mind, but it IS still possible and is a super low priority for Adobe. It's still undeniably the best raster image software you're going to find, even if a small portion of its use case is outclassed by a program specifically designed for that use case.