"Paul" wrote

| I used to keep selecting Save via muscle-memory
| and it used to drive me nuts.

Me too. I was appalled by the arrogance and
unprofessionalism of it. I see it as an example
of the problems with OSS. Libre Office does a
similar thing with PDF, as though they can't help
making a big deal about it. ("Hey, you're not just
saving that file, buddy. We're making a PDF out
of it. Darned clever, don't you think?")

On the other hand, it doesn't actually interfere
with the program.

But I think all of this is somewhat overrated,
anyway. There was a time when things like
Photoshop represented amazing new powers
available from computers. That time is long gone.
A decent editor is not hard to find.

Now the big
differences are in extreme functions that most
people don't need, like making fashion models look
more attractive or removing objects from photos
with a convincing fill pattern. That stuff is clever,
but not useful for most people who don't work in
print media.

I doubt there's much difference between GIMP
2.4 and 2.8 (as long as you don't mind the floating
toolbars).