Most of us who are amateurs have limited budgets for photography. When it comes to buying software, we need to be prudent and frugal. I've made both good choices and bad ones.
In the last few years, I've taken a number of photographs I'm pleased with. Even the best of those, though, can't compare to the photographs I didn't take.
It's easy to take forgettable landscape photographs. I've done it many times. We see a pretty scene, twist some dials, focus and start clicking the shutter. Then we get home and wonder why the results are so disappointing.