Initially, I avoided gimp as well.

But I was looking at gimp the wrong way. I wanted to know it all and I wanted it to be intuitive.

Gimp is a Swiss army knife. You won't always need all the tools, and many of them you won't even know are there.

But with time and new quests you'll start to add the functionalities of gimp to your own toolbox.

Gimp can export the gif as webp.