Alternative to Adobe Acrobat Pro

Friends,

I am preparing to update my mid-2015 MacBook Pro Retina from macOS 10.14.6. I understand Adobe Acrobat Pro is incompatible with OS Catalina and beyond, besides which I'm not interested in a cloud-based or subscription model of software use like Adobe has adopted.

The most important features I need include these:

creating pdfs from scanned documents, or downloads;

creating portfolios to collate related documents yet keep them separate;

editing pdfs by adding/deleting/re-ordering pages;

optimizing and reducing the size of pdfs;

password-protecting pdfs;

combining multiple files into single pdfs;

and the ability to batch-process multiple pdfs, such as when optimizing and reducing pdf size.

This question was asked here by another community member back in 2019, and received a couple of replies, but the landscape of software developers and products has changed a bit since then.

My current reading leads me to two potentially worthy alternatives: Nitro PDF Pro for Mac (formerly PDFpen/Pro), and Foxit PDF Editor for Mac, both costing about the same for one-time licenses.

Have any members here used either of these, or both, or have insights that may help decide between them, or have other alternatives with the same capabilities profile to suggest?

Many thanks in advance for kindly sharing your advice and guidance,

Barry