I'm reminded of the time I tried Lightroom around the time Apple announced that Aperture was being discontinued. It was unusably slow on the laptop I was using at the time — which was impressive given that Aperture had been perfectly usable — and I had to spend 20 minutes telling their support rep that I wasn't going to buy a new computer just to run Creative Cloud.

Photoshop was a great tool but they've spent years burning the boats moving away from the “bicycle for the mind”-era feeling which got them fans 20+ years ago.

Never fear! You can still run it and a few other apps:

https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive

“ Run Aperture, iPhoto, and iTunes on macOS Ventura, macOS Monterey, macOS Big Sur, and macOS Catalina. Xcode 11.7 on macOS Mojave. Final Cut Pro 7, Logic Pro 9, and iWork ’09 on macOS Mojave or macOS High Sierra.”