You love to see it

That’s an actual risk. The massification to enshittification pipeline is real

I love that copypasta

Even for hobbyist needs the feature set is basically a decade behind.

I mean, Gimp 3 ia looking pretty good to me. Maybe it’s not fit for a workplace (even though it depends on the workplace imo) but it’s definitely more than enough for hobbyists.

Would you mind citing some example of fundamental missing features?

Not trying to be a smartass, just genuinely curious

Proton is a tool for use with the Steam client which allows games which are exclusive to Windows to run on the Linux operating system. It uses Wine to facilitate this.

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton