Bah. I work for a film visual effects facility and most of the artists here dislike The Gimp tremendously. We've been using Wine to run Photoshop 7 quite successfully (and we're in the middle of getting Photoshop CS to co-operate at the moment - it's only a matter of time!).
Maybe you could gather all the features not present or not properly working that make you team dislike Gimp and send them to the Gimp developing team.