“It doesn’t necessarily need to be that going forward”

This part does not make any sense. Making GIMP to be able to support any image format is a good thing. Especially for future file preservation.

If it was merely industry standard, if a software already good, people will just use the default format. It already happen with various industries, like comic making in Asia using .CLIP (Clip Studio Paint) instead of .PSD

Different project scope tho.

Krita does not support random niche format like GIMP.

English is diverse language and each regional English have their own offensive world that have different meaning in different English speaking area.

Maybe you should meet more Indian English speaker and Singaporean English speaker. Heck, Australian English invent various offensive word.

It’s not about not using PSD.

GIMP is all about letting people to open and edit any image files. Whether it is a medical images format (DICOM), bitmap image only used on smart message, (Nokia’s Over The Air Bitmap), to open experimental niche format (Jeff’s Image Format).

Recommending ffmpeg to CapCut user seems not exactly correct lol