The menu layout and structure looks exactly the same, except it's floating, which you get in modern GIMP by default. Can you explain in more depth how it's tangibly different?

The icons are different which still throw me off. The colour select tool is weirdly now stacked behind the cropping tool or some other selection tool.

That's why you learn keyboard shortcuts.

You can move those about though

Um... I think they need a copy of Photoshop if they're going to try to "imitate" it. They imitated it as closely as chopping onions is similar to learning how to drive a car. I checked it out in January, while doing a month of open source alternatives to Adobe. That's a big no.

Adobe is pricey but that money is pumped very well into UI. After playing with some of the open source alternatives... yea, $55 a month is now cheap to me since I now know what crappy UI and ass backwards workflows really look like.

It might've been for you. No discernible difference for me.

Shit, that's exactly what photoshop used to look like (photoshop 7)