And that is the problem. People who have learned tools from what is now an established, multi-editor, digital medium, find they can't do what they wish to do.

I suspect very few even try to make this jump anymore.

GIMP still requires artists to think about and develop their workflow in the sequence that works best for GIMP.

Waving them away like this is a mind trick that the GIMP community should simply ban outright; it's devastating.

(Unless you mean this satirically and it's just gone over my head)