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They OBV have never cared. But it's probably one of the larger reasons it's never taken off in business. Just requesting it in some places would get you an HR violation.
My company provides GIMP to its employees. Turns out they care more about paying zero than a silly name.
We've opened the doors to Blender.
TBF, there's a pretty wide gap for professional art between PS and Gimp that go beyond knowing both interfaces. The actions, adjustment layers, hell down to just what happens when you paste a new layer. A lot of it, you CAN make Gimp do the same thing, but it takes many more steps and is often less precise.
I tried to see if I could convert my photographer wife over to it. Started learning her workflows, tried to translate it into Gimp. What she was doing was a LOT faster than I could sort and that's if i spent shit tons of time bridging the gap with python
The naming of tooling really matters, no one would use a software called cucked or rwrod whatever.
This shouldn't even be a discussion, this idiotic meme name probably had a massive impact on OSS software and it's perception by the public and I'm not even trying to exaggerate or joke.
It's the downside of volunteer-based work. There's noone to tell them no :)