Also curious what you dislike so much. And how does Photoshop compare? https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_ghez_hKxeo/hq720.jpg I like the way Gimp has looked more and disliked many of their experiments changing things. The screenshot you linked isn't even the default look anymore, they've got a dreadful dark mode if you like that sort of thing. The first thing I do on a new install is restore the light mode and color icons it has, and make all the tool icons visible at once.

What do you want it to do?

I’ve used it, it works.

The handful of other things I’ve used that do the same thing or something similar are roughly the same.

All attempts at making the UI look better invariably obfuscated tools.

looks like the type of designs backend engineers do. Just throw everything in there

Could you be very specific about what's sloppy? It would be very interesting to hear. I think I'm too numb from years of exposure.