I'm aware of it, and I know it's more powerful. It offers more options and more fine-tuning. But sometimes (read: virtually all the time) what I need is a simple, fast way of doing it. If I have a ton of selections to assemble together, I don't want to set alpha for every one of them. I want to drag and drop.
Then you don't use that option. (Or you turn it on long enough to move around the parts you want to move, then turn it off or select a different secondary color, and white goes back to behaving like any other color.) It would be an *option*, something that you wouldn't have to use, but could turn on when it would make life simpler. Which is a lot of the time, for me.
Seriously, I *have* gotten it to work with the layers and the alpha, and I do know why it would sometimes be desirable to have those options, but the lack of this simple shortcut method just ruins Paint.NET for the work I want to use it for.
I'm sorry, I don't want to come across as rude, or start an argument. I think it's a great program, and I do know how to get it to do what I want it to do. It's just that a simpler method would be vastly preferable, for me. I'm just upset because this program does everything I'd like except for this one little (but crucial) thing.