CMYK image mode being pretty much the only missing feature from Photoshop 3.0?
I think people tend to forget all the hoops they had to jump through years ago.
Do you remember how you couldn't edit text layers until version 4.0 or 5.0?
Or how most filters and some selection tools didn't work in 32-bit mode until fairly far in the CS release series?
So GIMP not having CMYK, or any color space support besides RGB, is actually sort of amusing. Just through version 7 Photoshop added vector shapes, history brush, adjustment layers, and a bunch of other stuff GIMP still lacks. It's an FOSS project so it's not like I'm saying the GIMP developers are bad, they clearly are quite talented.
What I'm saying is GIMP today is not as capable as Photoshop from 25 years ago. It's good enough for a lot of people but useless for others. I've been hearing your arguments about GIMP for as long as it has existed. It has a lot of capability and works for your use case so that must mean it just works for everyone. It's great that it works for some people. But you can't pretend Photoshop hasn't improved faster than GIMP. If you need anything beyond basic destructive editing GIMP is just not appropriate.
Must it mean that? Really? I had no idea! :)
> But you can't pretend Photoshop hasn't improved faster than GIMP.
That's not what I'm doing here :)