> I can even point you to a post by a former lead dev who literally said that GIMP's usability sucks and then implemented single-window mode It's ancient and o

> I can even point you to a post by a former lead dev who literally said that GIMP's usability sucks and then implemented single-window mode It's ancient and of academic interest only, but here[1]'s a bug report where people ask for a single-window mode and are told it's impossible and undesirable. It stayed open for seven years before being WONTFIXed in 2008. I guess this might be before your time on the project, and of course things have changed since then, but I think this might the sort of thing that led to the GIMP team's reputation for user-indifference. [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7379 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7379