I agree completely with this. At my office, I’ve started installing Krita in place of photoshop for people who need to edit images. It has its own learning curve, but it’s been a wonderful alternative.
For basic stuff it is a great alternative with a better UI than GIMP, although when you start needing more advanced stuff anything else is better than Krita for photo manipulation.
Gimp is just... not great. It's ten years behind the times. These days I tend to use Krita, even though it's more geared towards digital painting than general image editing.