Don't purchase Elements 2026 if you work with RAW files!!

I recently updated my Macbook and for whatever reason, my 2021 version of Elements was no longer recognized. I purchased the 2026 version and I am so sad I did! I work with RAW files - apparently this version does not play well with those files. It's slow, will randomly crash, and I cannot do many of the editing things I used to be able to do with no problem (for example, it takes AGES to crop an image, I cannot add text, I cannot turn the image into B&W, I cannot use the 'smooth skin' feature to name a few that I used all the time with my old version). I get this warning when trying to do certain things: 

"Could not perform the requested action because Photoshop Elements provides only limited support for files with 16 bit color depth. Do you want to convert the image to 8 bit?"

So anyway, I'm just super disappointed I purchased this version because I work with all RAW files. I should not have purchased and want to make sure other's don't make the same mistake I did!