AI is making photo editing apps easier to build than ever. A small team, or even a single person, can now build photo editing tools with quality approaching commercial software that took years and millions of dollars to develop. Background removal, upscaling, object editing, professional image processing… more and more features that used to be paid can now be offered for free or at a very low cost. When quality is no longer an exclusive advantage, traditional software companies will face growing competitive pressure. So what keeps you paying for apps like Adobe, when there are more and more free options of comparable quality?