I don't blame you for switching from Darktable at all. Darktable can be quite powerful but it suffers from ease of use and discoverability issues. It's not reasonable for a photo processing application to expect its users to deeply understand how it all works under the hood in order to get good results.

As someone who did a deep dive into understanding DT's scene-referred modules, it changed the way I think of photo processing. I now have a hard time using any other photo software.