GIMP 3.0 has been more than one decade in the making as the port from GTK2 to GTK3, also transitioning away from Python 2 to Python 3 support, and a wealth of other improvements from the UI to lower down into enhancing this open-source Photoshop alternative.
The GIMP project announced on X/Twitter today that they have entered the string freeze for this much anticipated release.
They'd be much more likely to have adoption in the industry, increased development, more donations if they had a name that companies and governments aren't driven away by.
I know some people in the Linux world think branding doesn't matter, but it absolutely does.