It only shows the ignorance of the author of this post, judging Gimp by its founders and not its current developers.
Good post, and the advanced use of the font typographic settings was alone worth the visit.
Not really because I am not one of said developpers.
However I do know that some of the most active ones are actually involved in the production of an animation movie, receive direct feedback and work on features and bits that artists involved in that movie care about so the author of this post is at best ignorant and didn't care to do a slight bit of research before publishing slop, at worse a plain liar.