MS Paints was neither simple nor intuitive it was easy to use and with the ease of use came a lot of bad habits and with the habits bad jpgs, giant tifs with 256 colors and the list goes on and on. MS Paint is and was a menace.
Let's say you are creating some variation of this meme: https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/American-Chopper-Argument
I also recall Word being not very easy with alignments.
So use Pages. It came with your Mac.
I also would like to do some small changes to the images(maybe laser eyes? maybe draw some lines to emphasise an emotion?).
Preview. It also came with your Mac.
If you look at my original post, I say that Preview is very powerful but hard to use.
Macintosh uses “⌘” as a command modifier key, not the Apple logo. The Apple II series used the Apple logo. The only reason Mac keyboards used to have the Apple logo on the command modifier keys is because Apple once made keyboards that worked on both the Mac and the Apple II GS.