Healing Brush Tool

I've been using Photoshop for 20 years. And for the last 14 years, I've been using it very intensively, daily, 12 or more hours a day, to create photo albums. This work includes opening, retouching and transferring hundreds of individual photos to multi-layer spreads.

My last working tools were Windows 7, a very old Wacon tablet and Photoshop 5 (Yes, the ancient one!).
I put off updating these tools as long as I could. First, because they worked perfectly. Second, because I knew that upgrading would cause me a ton of trouble. I was 100% convinced about that.

Then came the day when I couldn't put it off any longer to make the changes. And the problems I was looking forward to came much worse than I could have imagined. Even the most basic tasks became a torment! Like using the Healing Brush Tool, for example. This tool has become useless. It's impossible to work with her. The results of the retouching are unacceptable. The tool became a bad Stamp Tool. Touch-ups that took me 5 minutes now take me 15, without the desired result.

Also, a plethora of little big issues slow my workflow down to a desperate point. I've wasted countless hours researching tutorials, troubleshoots and posts in this community, only to come to the conclusion that there is no solution. The product turned out to be really bad. No argument can justify that the current version of Photoshop works so inferiorly to Photoshop 5, even though I'm using a much more powerful computer. Is that the return for the price I now have to pay monthly?

I know that those who transitioned years ago probably don't even know what I'm talking about anymore. They were getting used to what they had available and little by little forgetting how good Photoshop was when it belonged to those who bought it. Before it became an Adobe property whose rent we now have to pay. (I have no doubt that someday they will include commercials in the borders of the work window, just like ads were iforced in the already paid cable TV).

I see young users reaching out to the community for solutions to problems that didn't exist before. Like the Photoshop screen that is always on top of the Lightroom screen and vice versa, forcing us to reduce the screen of one program to be able to use the other (in my case, I have to do this every minute or every few seconds ). Generally, people who try to help have no idea what the problem is, because they no longer remember Photoshop when it worked correctly, as I do, because I was using it until two weeks ago.

I created a list of all the annoying little issues that slow down my workflow. There are already more than 20 problems. Impossible to seek help for each of them, knowing in advance that there will be no solution. And how would I explain, for example, the mess the Healing Tool causes when I'm trying to retouch a face? What good would it do to detail the differences between this current tool and the wonderful old tool if no one knows how the old one worked anymore? 

So this is just a rant from someone who still can't believe his days of perfect workflow are gone forever. The pleasure I felt in my work was replaced by a constant struggle. A tremendous drain of creative energy.

My old Windows 7 has become very slow now (for no apparent reason), but I'll have to keep using it to retouch my photos. I'll have to transfer each photo via Google Drive to be retouched in Photoshop 5 with the old Wacom tablet and then transferred back!
Yes, that sounds stupid and unbelievable, but it's the situation I'm facing right now.
But please don't waste your time trying to offer me suggestions. None of us would even know if some of the issues are Photoshop, Lightroom, Windows 11 or Wacom related! They are probably related to all of them. So, we can only accept that this is the end of the world as we knew it.

(Sorry for my third language English. I got some help from Google Translate)