And if I recall correctly the main author is running a company that builds this.
Sure, these stats might be exaggerated and a lot of the attention might be temporary.
But there seems to be a large community around this effort that could make long term maintenance more likely.
On one hand we have established OSS operating perhaps on a principle of accepting AI generated contributions only after thorough review, if at all.
On the other side we have a vibecoded Photoshop clone with a new community where presumably there are very low hurdles to contribute more vibecoded implementation.
Let's see if this will produce a usable application.
For what these projects are trying to achieve, starting a new project was the only real way. Can you imagine trying to convince the gimp maintainers to completely dump their current UI and adopt an AI generated Rust version replicating photoshop exactly? It would never be merged.