GIMP had the migration to GTK 3.0 (which is already outdated and replaced by 4.0) recently. It modernised a lot of things but didn’t change the UX fundamentally.
The FOSS space is unfortunately greatly lacking in skilled UX designers, and major reworks to long standing existing projects are always a gigantic undertaking that require a coordinated effort that can’t just be banged out by one very motivated dev, so it rarely happens.
Didn’t GIMP recently have a major resign?
GIMP had the migration to GTK 3.0 (which is already outdated and replaced by 4.0) recently. It modernised a lot of things but didn’t change the UX fundamentally.
The FOSS space is unfortunately greatly lacking in skilled UX designers, and major reworks to long standing existing projects are always a gigantic undertaking that require a coordinated effort that can’t just be banged out by one very motivated dev, so it rarely happens.