DeviantArt has led the Internet art hosting game for more than 20 years. A feat they have accomplished by being the best option available. Mind you, "Best option available" didn't mean they were good, just that nobody had bothered trying to make a better gallery-focused site. So over the course of the twenty-some-odd years they were a thing, DeviantArt had almost always been behind the curve when compared to other sites, because they just didn't have competition in their niche. I started using DeviantArt in 2010, so from my experience it's always been a site that felt outdated, whenever they made any kind of update it was always to bring them in line with a few years ago, but they kept on being successful, not because they were good, but because there wasn't anything better. Until today, DeviantArt's biggest asset was that it was the internet art gallery, people had been using it for 10+ years because it was "good enough" and they had no reason to leave. Now they have a reason to leave.
And as behind the curve as DeviantArt has been, Fur Affinity has managed to lag even a few steps behind that (seriously, where's the blacklist? tag suggestions? clickable category tags?)m, but now somehow finds itself the Australian speed skater of Internet art sites, pulling into first place exclusively because everyone ahead of them tripped and fell catastrophically.
so now here we are, Fur Affinity, the best art site on the internet. Best, but that doesn't mean good, just that the slowest skater somehow came in first place.