If I ever went Mac, I’d go to FCP.
Vegas is great but it’s so bloated with extras.
I used to produce stock footage when it was worth doing. Cuts only with the usual color / pedestal type tweaks. The vast majority still live at shutterstock, adobe, and Pond5. Every now and then I get a sale.
Up until a few years ago, I used to make a couple hundred dollars a month a lot of the time.
The once in a while YouTube, a handful of the effects and made up key bars and other supers in a photo editor.
I think that would be a great and fun career, if you could make a living at it. Most of my videos are now 90% stock and 100% of my images are my AI prompts. Have you been around long enough to have shot on film?