You can press the TAB button to temporarily hide all menus. It helps when working on small screens.

Krita lacks a lot of tools to work with photography. It's OK with general image manipulation but you have to really struggle to do anything that's not digital painting.

That said. The left side of GIMP is wide because the tool options are under the tool's icons. While Krita has them on the top as a bar.

Both programs let you move and change the layout to whatever you want, though. No one serious about using either program uses the default. There's a bunch of stuff you don't need to use that only takes up space when you're just doing one particular task. Hence why saving and reloading layouts is such a powerful feature.

EDIT: Here is, for example, my layout.

Also, the little logo on the corner has a purpose. It's a small area where you can drag and drop any image file from your file explorer and it will automatically open the file for editing, instead of pasting it on the current open project as a new layer. It's super useful.

The fact that this was a legit proposal by cable companies and even got patented serves as evidence of the lengths that corporations will go to enshittify services for profit.

Only if the average is exactly equal to the median.

Every online discussion has the potential of becoming the outlet for one commenter to articulate his personal retort to a fictional argument constructed of a thousand previous or inexistent arguments.

So, does that makes Silicon Valley the colon of Earth? Because that makes sense in a way.

Exactly, that's 100% my point. It will always be rightful, because it's theirs.

in matters of taste

I addressed this in the comment. If you don't "like" something. That opinion can't be wrong or right. You don't like it, period. Others cannot dictate how one feels about a matter of taste. “This sucks” is an opinion in matter of taste that cannot, by definition, be invalidated by external objective means. For this person, this sucks.

On the contrary. Opinions are subjective individual experience, and will always be rightful in the person's eyes. Just like an opinion cannot be objectively true. An opinion cannot, by definition, be wrong. It's their opinion, and they're entitled to it, and to tell them their subjective experience of reality is incorrect in matters of taste is not only tactless but pointless.

Besides all the other reasons listed. The value of a restaurant is that they feed you with an unique experience. The recipe is not the experience, it's just a broad guideline. Everyone knows how burgers are made. But I've tasted some pretty unique burgers in my life, for which the experience of having eaten would not be possible to replicate even if you had a gram by gram breakdown of the constituent chemicals.

How hard would it be to make it work with a third party stylus?

Gnome has a strong touch interface. You just don't see it when used in a desktop.