> because for me GIMP is substantially more intuitive and productive and easy than Photoshop ever was.

It took me some time to adjust, but yeah I felt the same.

> I definitely get that if you're already used to Photoshop then GIMP's gonna be an adjustment (and vice versa)

In fact the argument of people finding GIMP unintuitive is that Photoshop is better.

I mainly complain about GIMP's updates breaking changes though.