Just because something it’s 10 years old doesn’t mean it’s useless or broken, especially when it’s open hardware and you can upgrade it or repair it. Your mentality seem to be shaped around closed hardware that you throw away once it’s broken or a new model is released.
I’m gonna add something nobody mentioned yet: you can easily get hundreds extra filters on gimp and krita by installing G’MIC (already installed in some version)
Also get your hands on blender and stable diffusion