my 2c,
It is perfectly legit here in the VS forum to have more than one NLE.
Your best NLE is the one you know how to operate, according to the videos you are doing.
Few years ago when I was fed up with VS's "bells and useless whistles" they keep adding, I went and test few other.
I found VMS16P for 60$ as best fit. It isn't perfect, but for the bread and butter of editing it superior to VS. You can get VMS17Platinum for 50$ here
https://www.vegascreativesoftware.com/u ... roductMenu
* you could Try it for 30 days.
If no Covid then Ver18 was about to go out last month, but now, I don't know.