I just treat it as an acronym, as do the current developers. The original founders of the project aren't the ones at the helm currently and the GNU Image Manip

I just treat it as an acronym, as do the current developers. The original founders of the project aren't the ones at the helm currently and the GNU Image Manipulation Program acronym took over from whatever pun it was a long time ago already. You might like krita better but maybe it is an insult or genital part name in someone else language but you might never know. It happens to so many products. The Toyota MR2 really sound in french like you are calling someone an asshole which is the reason they called it simply MR in that particular market, while an audi etron sounded like audi feces. All this to say that naming is hard and you can never please everyone. People should really relax and not take personally what has been an acronym for most of the project's life.