I'm chiming on this because as a former GIMP user I don't feel like it "sucks" as a whole but rather that it "sucks" at pretty "basic" stuff, which makes it see

I'm chiming on this because as a former GIMP user I don't feel like it "sucks" as a whole but rather that it "sucks" at pretty "basic" stuff, which makes it seem like the whole thing is rubbish. And it sucks at basic things because its devs deliberately wanted it to be like that. Go ask them why you have to do the thing you mentioned or why it is easier to draw a circle in frigging MS Paint than with GIMP without them turning ultradefensive. Yes, it has happened to me - was heavily downvoted at r/linux some years ago (and at Lemmy like a couple weeks ago) only because I mentioned this. GIMP has serious UX flaws its devs are not humble enough to recognize that for some reason and it hurt GIMP so much for so long. It "sucks" not because lack or resourcesz lack of time to work on it or lack of manpower,as they want to frame it - but lack of humbleness from its devs. On the bright side it seems this can be the end of that stupid mentality as they are welcoming new devs and gathered a UI/UX team.