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gimp is kinda jank yeah but when people have Serious Takes about how it needs to improve all i can read is "here is how these four guys working intermittently for free have FAILED to live up to the international company making twenty billion dollars a year"

"personally i would just make it be good" great, stop fucking posting about it and get to work then

this is frustrating in a way that's hard to fit in a bleat but it boils down to people not appreciating the outright miracle that open source software is in the first place and then wanting to be treated like a customer when it's not an exact replica of something that costs $700

the thing krita and blender have in common is that PEOPLE GAVE THEM A LOT OF MONEY

the developers of other foss software aren't idiots waiting for someone to tweet "have you tried making good ux?" at them — they just don't have the resources to hire ux designers and do user studies and whatever else because they are giving their fucking work to you for free

ok i think there are a couple particular factors here ① sometimes people treat FOSS as though the thing it's /supposed to be/ is "software i already use, but free, and without any of the stuff i dislike". but that rarely happens — it's creative work made by different people with different ideas

② "why not just copy photoshop" is really the same genre of Idea Guy post as "why not just make a pokémon game with every region in it", but software isn't often recognized as a creative endeavor so a lot of serious professionals nod along (and then i look like a lunatic for finding it grating)

at best you become a shoddy knockoff with no identity of your own, and i cannot imagine anything more joyless to work on and then what do you do with all your existing features that don't map to the ui you're just copying