@idoclosecuts Your situation is about the polar opposite of mine. I'm a hobbyist photographer who has never gotten down in the weeds of Photoshop levels of manipulation. Aperture at first and then C1, with a dabble in DxO (recently uninstalled).
I'm not liking the OS and software upgrade treadmill. My desktop is old enough now (2017, running Ventura) that it doesn't get any support from Apple other than very occasional security updates for Safari and the like. I may have to start blocking its access to the internet soon and do all the web things from just the newer laptop.
At that point I'll see about a permanent license (frozen in time for features and support) as they are no doubt going to drop support for that version of MacOS.