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Does it have the same freature set as gimp? Genuine question because I have heard people saying Krita err much more to artistic creation side than photo editing capabilities that gimp does.

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No, you can't print in Krita. Also, GIMP's transform tools are more powerful.

Krita still doesn't have a usable text tool or a way to change an image's color space.

What? Krita had proper color space handling and conversions for many years, probably a decade now.

GIMP is the one that's still missing proper colorspace handling, especially regarding CMYK.

And Krita has had vector layers with text support for quite a while as well.

I thought CMYK was part of the 3.0 release?

Partial CMYK support, yes. Comparable to e.g. Inkscape. That means it's actually doing RGB under the hood and converting to/from CMYK on the fly as needed.

But not proper native support for CMYK and spot colors as you might know from Adobe or Krita, where everything internally tracks CMYK data throughout.

If you're working with text in an image, you'll have a vastly better experience using Inkscape.

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