Personally, I'm grateful this tool exists.
I have used Adobe Lightroom 5 the one you could get on a disc, like, when owning things was actually possible. Adobe has systematically pissed me off over the last decade. Lightroom was great, non-destructive edits, import into year with sub directory sorted by months. Quick copy and apply edits. Lr5 was great.
I'm just a hobbyist photographer, I'm not doing pro level anything or charging anyone anything. I would love to use the student edition. I refuse to though, because it requires Adobe to upload them online, use them for ai training, it's not private. I take photos on a camera to NOT have them on the Internet.
To be honest I'd be upset if a photographer used any ai or cloud storage for my personal photos. Sadly, it's so baked in a photographer might not even know. Not everyone cares or is tech savvy(which is totally fine) it's not their fault the company is shady.

That was a first issue, second they won't support the version I have any longer, ok that's how software/hardware works, but it's a subscription model now and that sucks. I upload 6 months of photos at a clip, I didn't need a monthly sub. Because of that I'm tied to an old laptop that's on death's door to edit my pics.

Darktable provides everything I need that Lightroom did, sans a small bit of import magic to organize photos, and it's a little tricky to use but after about an hour, I understand how to get things going. Anything has a learning curve.
With darktable I know my pics are mine, they are on my laptop, I won't be paying a subscription. That small amount of frustration is worth it to tell Adobe to piss off.

"Some American editorial responses” before and after the burnings, “made light of the event,”
remarks the United States Holocaust Museum,
calling it “silly” and “infantile.”

Others foresaw much worse to come.
In one very explicit expression of the terrible possibilities,
artist and political cartoonist Jacob Burck drew an image, evoking the observation of 19th century German writer Heinrich Heine:
“Where one burns books, one will soon burn people.”

Newsweek described the events as “’a holocaust of books’…
one of the first instances in which the term ‘holocaust’
(an ancient Greek word meaning a burnt offering to a deity)
was used in connection with the Nazis.”

The day before the burnings, Keller also displayed a keen sense for the gravity of book burnings,
as well as a “notable… early concern,”
notes Rebecca Onion at Slate
—outside the Jewish community, that is
—for what she called the “barbarities to the Jews.”

On May 9, 1933, Keller published a short but pointed open letter to the Nazi students in The New York Times and elsewhere,
abjuring them to stop the proposed burnings.
She wrote in a religious idiom, invoking the “judgment” of God and paraphrasing the Bible.
(Not a traditional Christian, she belonged to a mystical sect called Swedenborgianism.)

Read the full transcript below:
To the student body of Germany:
History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas.
Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them.
You can burn my books and the books of the best minds in Europe,
but the ideas in them have seeped through a million channels and will continue to quicken other minds.
I gave all the royalties of my books for all time to the German soldiers blinded in the World War
with no thought in my heart but love and compassion for the German people.
I acknowledge the grievous complications that have led to your intolerance;
all the more do I deplore the injustice and unwisdom of passing on to unborn generations the stigma of your deeds.

Do not imagine that your barbarities to the Jews are unknown here.
God sleepeth not, and He will visit His judgment upon you.
Better were it for you to have a mill-stone hung around your neck and sink into the sea than to be hated and despised of all men.