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Are you memeing? I hate Adobe as much as the next guy but Inkscape is absolutely horrid compared to Illustrator or even Affinity.
I'm noticing in this thread that a lot of people consider far inferior programs the better option purely because it's FOSS and that was clearly not what OP asked. Like, none of these Adobe alternatives are actually better by any means. People keep saying VLC but it's kind of garbage compared to several others these days.
Inkscape can do a lot, the recent 1.3 update is pretty nice. How well it can replace Illustrator basically only depends on what features you use the most, and if those features are available and/or easily replicated.
It finally has a shape builder tool, for instance. Again, it may not be up to par depending on what your personal workflow looks like, but outright calling it horrid is not appropriate imo.