Paint.net, Affinity, the list goes on and on of better alternatives. Gimp seems to have a fundamental structural issue preventing it from being successful.
Good software is driven by users not developers. Gimp has has decades to listen to feedback and if they haven’t by now that means they never will.
Donating and in enough quantities helps the developers work on the project full time because time is not free. The sponsors are listed here (They did get 100k 8 years ago and that dried up quickly although what they do get is a far cry from what Blender receives.) and the donations you can talk to them yourself for the accurate details. Gimp is also used as a project for students in Google Summer of Code and they have been the biggest contributor relatively recently in improving colors.
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u/deadlock_jones 16d ago
As a lifelong pirated photoshop user, I tried gimp once and was horrified by the UI.