I might be able to pass this down

would say that Bitwig is very similar to Ableton Live in terms of UI and workflow, which also includes live performance as a first class usecase, unlike FL. It also has quite a good standard library of synths, effects and samples, which lets you save on getting those elsewhere.
Reaper is closer to something like Audacity / Adobe Audition than FL or Ableton in terms of UX, despite also being able to support all the stuff you expect from a DAW, like a piano roll or FX busses and automation. It is a more general purpose and frankly hostile tool, with plenty of layered pop up windows and no built-in synth or sample library – except for FX. On the other side, it is just $60 for the whole thing, while even the more limited version editions of other DAWs (with some of them being glorified demos, looking at you, FL) start at $100 at the minimum


For other things you might want to be on the lookout for, there are, I guess, three names.

First is Decent Sampler, which is basically a