Hello,
I don’t know but I can imagine that changing your main production program must be hard. I hope the transition isn’t being too difficult for you. I can only say: remember that Krita isn’t trying to be any other program, and some things being different doesn’t mean they are wrong.
I said this because of your closing post:
Now about your fidings. They are related to the math the program uses to blend the Mask and the Brushtip, and it is fair to say 99% of users will never know this as is a kind of technical knowledge. It is also fair to assume the ‘right’ way is the one you were exposed first. A Krita only user could think Photoshop, CSP, Artstudio or Procreate were wrong in their masked brushes.
While discussing the new texture blending for brushes, @Deif_Lou explained that Krita and Photoshop uses a sightly different math. You can see how their differ here, where the new modes are proposed. When introducing the modes (per example, 3.1.1. Overlay) there are 3 screenshots, the first is the PS’s way and the second is Krita’s way. The third one is just a theoretical variation.
Okay, so what to do with this wall of information? Here on the testing of the New Texture for Brushes Deif_Lou asked if people would like a option to use the Photoshop way, or Krita way (probably a toggle button). I as in favor of it, but not many people showed interest. Then it was left as is for now.
Yeah, but this was for texture brushes, not masked. Yes, however, here is stated that the code is shared between them. So a Krita or PS ‘blending button’ could be done for the masked brushes as well.
So this is a good moment to again show interest in implementing this option in Krita.
Cheers.