Of you’re going foss for your OS why not take a look at Krita and gimp for your image editing needs?

I’ve not tried either in years at this point hut can’t hurt to check them out if you haven’t already.

So long Ozzy. Thanks for all the metal.

I ended up switching to heliboard in the end. You can grab it from fdroid.

If you’re on android and using swiftkey that might be your culprit. For ages I thought I was getting worse but the more I looked at it the more I noticed Swiftkey was suggesting me words that didn’t exist or were spelt wrong. Eventually I switched keyboards and it became way easier.