That's the thing, they didn't take any GIMP contributors.

Everyone that was behind Glimpse was third party to the GIMP project.

This wasn't even a serious project but an example of malicious virtue signaling with a long-term plan for sort of hostile takeover. People involved just took the original code and replaced every GIMP occurrence with Glimpse, added new logo/icon and called job done. Then went to the news sites trying to raise awareness of the supposed name controversy hoping noise will discredit GIMP while they'll portrait themselves as the saviors, because who'd want to contribute to a software that has such bad reputation.

Nearly every discussion regarding GIMP on hn will include thread about the name 'problem' and this is getting tiresome.

It's been over 24 years for me since I've used GIMP for the first time and the only problem that exist for me was always with GUI ergonomics. You had to understand everything anew after being more accustomed to proprietary software pieces. My friend never adapted to anything else but Photoshop - even Krita is beyond her abilities.