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Exhibit A: the text tool.

Oh... yeah, you're not wrong.

Then suffered with GIMP for a few years, hating every nanosecond of it, til PhotoGIMP came along.

You're also not wrong that the GIMP developers stubbornly refusing to create something like this as the normal way of doing things is evidence of them not really caring about how well their software works out for most people who are going to use it.

If you needed some more evidence, holy shit the scripting interface is bad. However bad you think it is, multiply that by about 3 to 5 times, and that's how bad it is. I'm not trying to talk trash on people who made something awesome which I use frequently which does the job I need it to do perfectly (and were fine with making it available for PhotoGIMP to take advantage of to make some different thing to serve other people's need). But holy shit the scripting is bad. It's so bad.