@andycarolan ouf I feel your pain.
When I had to make the Fedi promo video I absolutely had to use AfterEffects (there's no real competitor in the motion graphics sphere, plus I had over a hundred ready-made templates I could use to save time).
I only purchased an Adobe subscription for a month (AE). And canceled it as soon as the video was done.
For editing I learned DaVinci Resolve as I didn't want to give extra $ to Adobe.
It's so sad to see how far down they've fallen, values-wise 😭