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From my historic experience with both, the GIMP project always seemed actively hostile to UI change suggestions, and even keeping their name is a thumb in the eye to going mainstream. Blender has been more about being a good product from the very start, I've been following it since before it was open sourced. It's current success is a path it started walking way before it had lots of devs and resources.

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Blender was extremely hostile to UI change suggestions as well until only recently when they changed things drastically with the insanely successful Blender 2.8 project. From then on donations (including corporate sponsors) grew massively. Blender has made massive strides in the past few years, and much of it can be attributed to them changing their stance on UI/UX changes.

> From my historic experience with both, the GIMP project always seemed actively hostile to UI change suggestions

We ask for rationalization of suggested changes. For some reason people think it's hostile.

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