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That's actually what I thought this submission was. Didn't remember what it was called, so I didn't realize PhotoGIMP wasn't GIMPshop.

It's funny that both of these kept GIMP in the name when the name itself has spawend a different fork.

I remember one renamed Glimpse but it seems they stopped working on it long ago: https://github.com/azubieta/Glimpse

Yes, none of the forks have succeeded so PS interface compatibility may not be as important as is constantly mentioned.

There was also an effort called Glimpse around 2019 to be a UX / accessibility overhaul of GIMP along with a name change to be less offensive, see:

Looks like the last release was from over a year ago and the issues indicated it no longer works with the latest GIMP release.