In article .com,
Savageduck wrote:

I1ve decided to move all my computers to Free software because I have
little to no control over what Apple, MS, and Adobe do and they all
seem to
want to move everything into the cloud, discontinue important programs
(I1m
looking at Apple and their abandonment of Aperture),

blame users. too few people bought aperture for it to be a viable
product.

Always blame the customer.

Aperture, as promising as it was, was a commercial failure. Part of the blame
goes to a pretentious initial price of $499 which with ver. 2.0 was reduced
to a still too high $199.

actually, aperture was cut to $299 with version 1.1, and a $200 coupon
offered to early buyers:
https://www.macworld.com/article/1053472/aperture15.html

Those prices made anything from Adobe look like a
bargain.

lightroom was a huge bargain, largely because lightroom on a low end
mac mini was faster than aperture on a (then) top of the line powermac
g5 and was not supported at all on a mac mini.