It means GIMP is constantly improving but there is still quite a bit of room for improvement, where, maybe in comparison to an established industry standard such as Photoshop, it does not leave nearly as much to be desired.

Yeeeaah right now I’m staying away from it. It seems to work fine … on the surface. But use it for more than a few minutes, or use anything other than the most basic tools on a low-performance machine (I tried to apply a simple brightness correction to a layer) and IT WILL crash and burn.

This seems to be prepared to work without an internet connection or a canvas account. At no point was I prompted to sign in and, in fact, signing out seems to break the program currently.