[bobsterlobster]

I don't think it's Stockholm Syndrome, rather it's a classic case of sunken cost fallacy. For me at least, that's what it was. I had invested so much time in Ableton (~14 years) and didn't feel like starting from scratch with another DAW. And let's be real, no one likes that kind of friction.

It had to get worse to finally break the inertia and also make me realize that it's only going downhill.

[rmunn]

I'll note that sunken cost is not always a fallacy, or perhaps I should phrase that as "things that look like the sunken cost fallacy aren't always that fallacy". In your specific case, for example, you didn't feel like starting from scratch, because that would involve paying a cost (in terms of time learning a new system) that you didn't want to pay. So it's not actually "I sunk so much time into this, I want to get my money's worth" as it is "cost of learning something new: high. Cost of sticking with what I know: zero." So not exactly the same as the sunk-cost fallacy.