No bro, cracking isn't dead yet, many people still love to crack the software to show how skillful they're as reverse engineers. But, surely trusting those cracks isn't a good choice either as many of those can come with obfuscated code which might have malware in it. I'm not an advocate of using crack software but still if someone wants to use those for educational purpose then he/she should do that at his/her own risk.

I'm basically a gimp user and I almost stopped using Adobe photoshop in 2014 but Gimp is still way behind  Photoshop however with each new version we are getting some improvements. For video editing I use Kdenlive it's a good and open-source video editor and it does the job very well. But, it's not as good as Adobe After Effects or any other industry top level video editors. However, we should forget about those features and enjoy what we are getting for free.