Ask HN: Software you hate but can't replace?

At work we are limited by whatever is in the enterprise catalog offering (very old school traditional public sector environment). So I end up hating a lot of software simply because we are forced to use it beyond its design parameters / intended usage. I.e. We took a quality management / testing scenario tool and repurposed it into a general knowledge management AND ticketing tool. So I can hardly blame it but dislike is there nonetheless.

At home, Light room and photoshop. I swear they are getting slower and more bloated all the time and they keep changing UI for no reason. The subscription model is what rises my hate though.

There are alternatives of course but

I have 15 years of catalogues

I have limited faith anything else will read is own catalogues 15 years from now. How do you pick stable software now (and one does need updates as cameras change etc)

Hate is too Sterling for these gripes, but this is relatively the best fit:

Windows 10, useful for some games with friends, because of the “nudges” to change my behavior, like asking if I really want to keep using that program, the magic-fingers messages on installation (suggesting I just blindly trust), and the difficulty to install without an online account, among other things. I can’t replace it yet, but the day will come, one way or another.

Adobe suite. After effects, illustrator, inDesign etc

Adobe in the above fields of design are industry leaders, and have the features & functions we’ve come to rely on.

Adobe’s pricing model has become very aggressive, and quite unaffordable for lots.

Gchat, gdocs, gsheet, gmeet. These are the worst apps of their respective categories, ever to exist. But I am helpless, because I've to use what my company has bought.

The number one reason why they're bad is that they are not native apps. They need a tab in the browser, or a fake browser window.

The second reason they're bad is because Google does not care about the user experience. Each of these is probably assigned to a random intern every three months and she just does whatever she likes with it.

The third reason is that I know how good each of these category of apps can be. I've used slack, zoom, excel and word. Each one of those is lovingly crafted to satisfy the users every need, comparatively. Knowing that such apps exist makes it even more painful to use Google's half baked knock offs.

One of the things that keep me from switching to Linux on my gaming machine is Game Pass.