As nice as Photopea is, it's browser only. Furthermore, GIMP provides a variety of different plugins, extensibility options, hardware support for graphics table

As nice as Photopea is, it's browser only. Furthermore, GIMP provides a variety of different plugins, extensibility options, hardware support for graphics tablets etc. So the answer is yes, GIMP is still a lovely piece of free software that's utilized by numerous people out there to great effect.