I was recently trying to make text along a path in Gimp and holy hell is it weird.. you create a text object, then create a path and with the path selected, right click the text object layer and choose “text along path”, and then you have to “stroke path”, IIRC.

But what that does is renders some kind of object (don’t recall if it’s rasterized or what). If you later notice a typo, or want to change the font, font size, or path a little bit, you have to throw away the rendered object, make your changes to the text object (hope you kept it as a hidden layer or something!), and then re-render and re-stroke it.

I’m glad I was working on something for fun (bottle label) and that I didn’t particularly care about the end result.