Main problem for gimp now is under-funding. Although slow, their approach may be sound: features will land once they are good enough to work and well written en

Main problem for gimp now is under-funding. Although slow, their approach may be sound: features will land once they are good enough to work and well written enough to be maintainable. This may be slow but keeps the mechanism working for decades even with a very small team. Studios need features implemented immediately. That usually generates functional but unmaintainable solutions. Note that filmgimp/cinepaint was abandoned by studios as well as gimp developers. What studios should have done: fund main gimp developers and hire other developers to help accelerate the development of GEGL or other multi bpp lib. What gimp developers should have done: try to merge enough of the studios changes to keep them interested.