At CGWire, the number one reason we hear people want to leave Shotgrid is its cost and complexity: the per-seat licensing, the enterprise support tiers, the consultant and maintenance fees, and the years of institutional knowledge baked into a platform that someone else controls. A mid-sized animation studio running 40 seats can easily blow up a budget. Kitsu is the alternative that has quietly matured into a solid production tracker. It's open-source, actively maintained by our team, built aro