contrast_ wrote:
Pessimistic post incoming!
As we enter the early 2020s, Gimp is still stuck in the early 2000s due to not having any form of advance layers. GEGL is extremely powerful but Gimp is barely tapping into its potential. Gimp forum users are making tons of python stuff that will break in Gimp 3. Gimp 3.2 won't happen till the late 2020s and won't have decent non-destructive editing until 2030. Meanwhile all the commercial image editing is going to be non-free and monopolized by Adobe. Everything non open source is going to be cloud only and in the hands of the evil scary Adobe corporation.
So, ask yourself, what can I do to help? Ranting in all available Gimp forums that developers don't read anyway is useless. Gimp development is an ergocracy, your voice is only as important as your contribution. Gimp development doesn't need columnists, it needs programmers, testers, doc writers... Gimp developers don't need ideas, they need manpower.
And if you don't like the way Gimp goes, you can make a fork, that's the beauty of FOSS.