How to justify the expense of Photoshop

RudyPohl wrote:

I have owned and used Photoshop since it first came out many years ago, along with several other Adobe products. I have also owned and used Paint Shop Pro (a sort of lite version Photoshop) since it first came out, and because of ease of use with almost the same output quality, we've used it far more often than Photoshop over the years. For really high-end or complex work we of course use Photoshop.