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So here's the thing. Just about anyone in a creative field learned Photoshop inside and out. We learned the shortcut keys and relied on them to be much much faster at our jobs. So not using them feels like a huge handicap and having to relearn them would be bad enough, but there are common things in gimp that I found have no shortcut keys at all. And the ones that do exist largely don't make sense, even when ignoring the Photoshop conventions. When I'm struggling to zoom without clicking several times, the app is the issue, not me.
I'm sorry all of you put your eggs into one basket which enshitified into an interface for babies. BTW, I'm an artist both digital and traditional. When I got my degree in science I was able to get arts degrees at the same time fulfilling electives requirements. My favorite programs are Clip Studio Paint, Gimp, Blender, and Autodesk Fusion 360, but I don't use hotkeys for any of them, except occasionally rigging in blender, or I would be memorizing like 300+ different hotkeys.