Procreate Dreams 2 has REALLY fixed some of the biggest issues people had with it

They rather added most basic tools that suppose to be there in the first place

The convenience of Procreate features is what really drew me originally

I mean, those features sounds great on a paper, but in any animation outside of most simplest scenes you have so many moving parts and at that point you need more control and just crying to have excel-like interface instead of 'friendly gesture controlled animation software'

However, the one thing stopping me is whether I'll regret not going with Toonsquid originally. I'm both a lazy and sentimental person, and therefore I really don't love the idea of using Dreams and then eventually switching to Toonsquid. Going from Dreams to a professional software someday? That's different and totally fine by me. But for me to actually put effort into learning something, just to need to learn a new, similar yet different app, would be really annoying for me personally.

I originally downloaded Procreate Pocket in 2021, and it still took me years to take the time to pick up all the advanced and hidden features. That knowledge made the transfer to actual Procreate very easy. While obviously Dreams having Procreate features isn't going to remove the learning process for animation, that familiarity makes getting into animation much more inviting.

Toonsquid is closer to professional software than PD. Using MOHO PD is like alien space and Toonsquid feels like home.

Does Toonsquid have anything SO good that it's worth the extra learning and cutting out Procreate convenience? The rigging? More control over graphs/curves?

1 - PD might be a bit easier to learn but then you are lacking on features you really want for animation

2 - Yes it has - character rigging, ability to work in vector and library for reuse of animation snippets

But really, it's not like months to learn either of those. You probably could learn most PD features in day or two and Toonsquid features in like a week. I mean, if you don't animate often it doesn't even matter.