I'm going to be pedantic for a moment to make a point later... The GIMP is essentially an inanimate object and has no needs of its own. It does not want to be u

I'm going to be pedantic for a moment to make a point later... The GIMP is essentially an inanimate object and has no needs of its own. It does not want to be used. It does not want to be popular. It does not want. It would be quite happy to be consigned to perdition, except it can't be happy at all. Let's be clear here: you want a program like GIMP that doesn't look like it time warped forward from 1993. Which is a different matter altogether, but the main thing is that it sounds less impressive, and that you should watch out for any potential sense of entitlement to awesomer software, because you probably didn't actually pay any money or work on said software... :P Now, some of us are a little less picky about UI and deployability in an actual or hypothetical commercial design-house workflow and the usual complaints, and are possibly a little more picky about spending money (and/or pirating software). We'll continue to happily use the GIMP for our miscellaneous photo-editing needs as such needs arise, and volunteer labor will continue to improve it.