I've tried a bunch of different ones, mostly free ones, but finally I got what I wanted with a paid one (which thankfully didn't have a stupid subscription plan)
It has all of the features of svgs in it including text to path. The pen tool is a dream to work with (you can constantly retweak path...
I needed to drop out a background and turn it transparent, and I found this great site which allows you to do that and so much more with images: https://www4.lunapic.com/editor/
You can create animated gifs, do art style filters, do some basic drawing and modifications, etc.
Many of the thinks ...
Node red this is a very similar thing to yahoo pipes back in the day. It is a self hosted tool to pipe things into each other and do operations on them (best to watch the video there).
