What a self-indulgent writeup. The article came nowhere near answering the central question: what are the devs doing other than constantly changing the name of the project and how is this thing better than gimp.
"I'll hope you, dear reader, will forgive me for making this a really personal post; a very large part of my life has been tied up with Krita, and it's going to show."
ended up in something "jmix" thought was "self-indulgent".
Oh, I didn't know that Krita used to be called something else. I can't find any details of what its name was before it was Krita though; do you happen to know what it was?
https://krita.org/en/posts/2009/the-history-of-kimageshop-kr...
I googled that because the "long dead German lawyer" in the op's article made my spider-sense tingle. Of course it was Gravenreuth, the bête noire of the German internet in the 90s and 2000s.
Krita is an application primarily aimed at digital artwork rather than editing images. So a strong emphasis on drawing and related tasks. For this, it is much easier to use than gimp. I won't necessarily say it's better, but every time I tried using gimp I gave up and I actually stuck with krita.