VLC’s EQ is not even comparable to what MSEB and Equalizer in HiBy do. HiBy is a massively popular company in audio community that makes dedicated Portable Music Players. An audio company simply has an upper hand.

CamScanner’s auto detection of perspective orientation to flatten a document paper is amazing. PDF Doc Scan only came out a couple months ago, and is incredibly inferior because of 3 things. It must show up as an app that can accept images from share menu in gallery, its builtin camera app does not compare to any advanced camera processing app like system’s stock builtin OEM camera apps or GCam/Go, and needing to manually drag corners on most images versus CamScanner auto detecting it with batch images stops being a matter of mere convenience.

Snapseed does what Photoshop/GIMP does, but almost quicker and even better in ways on phone. Why go around on desktop for quickly editing a couple nice images you clicked when on the street market or of city landscape while on a high rise building?

Android Work Profile is literally meant for work/office. The official AOSP documentation has these things detailed. Separate user profile means different room. But the point is work profile is built to have isolation for networking and storage space. Work profile is just a different user profile that can run within your main user profile, whereas a separate user account must be separately logged into, and cannot provide the benefit of using work and main profile apps together with their notifications.

I do not know about Lynx, which may be comparable with Nova free tier, as Nova Prime brings its coveted Gestures that make the quality of life difference. Using it for 7-8 years now.

ScreenMaster’s on the fly image compression and horizontal/vertical stacking and cropping is not even a contest, when it comes to users taking too many screenshots. I use screenshots as bookmarks for webpages and reddit posts I will never visit again. Even quick crop and make image snippets of information to preserve. Being able to take 3-4 screenshots in the same storage space as I would otherwise take 1 in itself is enough for anyone to consider it.

I have not even talked about the other apps’ benefits. Not to be rude, but you are ideologically constructing up mental blockades to justify using inferior apps and are not even considering the quality of life benefits they can bring. Perhaps you may have lesser needs in life, but I can see many of these apps’ benefits being applicable to you already. Attack surface is gone when you can disable internet for all these apps bar one, which you could choose not to use.

I was a former Windows user all my life, shifted to Ubuntu, now I daily drive Debian Stable, and have made FOSS guides and made a large privacy community, which is also why I understand why ideological rigidness is foolish and not beneficial. Its okay to use closed source in a safe manner and benefit from technology, and improve your life, instead of being a counter culture normie of sorts. Opposing corporate lovers as a contrarian is great, but being a careful and rational meta-contrarian is the next step of optimisation.