Has any former Paint Shop (PSP) user found graphics program out there that runs close to PSP ?

I'm currently on the 2nd day of the 7 day trail for Pixelmator Pro & while it looks promising and has a nice price...it's frustrating to figure out. It's lay-out is vary familiar to Photoshop too which has a very hard, long learning curve (and like you said bloated, overpriced). I couldn't figure out how to do something that takes me 3-5 minutes in PSP, so fired up the laptop to do that quick job. It does look promising and isn't expensive really. The fact that I'm trying to figure out & learn how to use a Mac (after decades of Windows use) isn't helping me give it fair shake. The price is tempting though.

Downloaded & Installed Affinity Photo since it has a 10 day trial. And did something I did in PSP in about a minute longer. So considering part of it is figuring out where iOS put stuff for apps this is more promising IMO. It's lay-out looks closer to PSP and it was easy to figure out. Price is higher than Pixelmator Pro but about what PSP would cost, so still reasonable.

From the screenshots I see for Graphic its layout isn't bad looking so might explore that later. Wish it had a trail period.

Thanks for the suggestions. And thanks for giving me suggestions that didn't have a subscription plan ;)

• Unrelated...nice plane in your avatar, never worked the "E" model, but worked A, B, C & D models of the Eagle.

I actually have GIMP loaded on my MAC & PC. But it being more complex has kept me from using it that much.