Gimp has made some usability improvements, but I agree it is still painful to use. When Blender finally bit-the-bullet and overhauled their UI - in a way that

Gimp has made some usability improvements, but I agree it is still painful to use. When Blender finally bit-the-bullet and overhauled their UI - in a way that more aligned itself with how other keys/clicks worked in similar tools - it totally relaunched itself and is now so much easier to use. It would be great it Gimp (and inkscape) did a similar overhaul IMHO.