Here gimp devs has chosen to make the nondestructive action the default one - a sane choice given their development resources.
Worst case if you forget to export in the correct format you have to export again.
If it by default saved back to the same format by default then in a worst case you lose hours of work.
UX is about more than shiny, about more than copying Mac, about more than saving a keystroke here and there.
(Hardcore dev here, not UX, not UI.)
Here gimp devs has chosen to make the nondestructive action the default one - a sane choice given their development resources.
Worst case if you forget to export in the correct format you have to export again.
If it by default saved back to the same format by default then in a worst case you lose hours of work.
UX is about more than shiny, about more than copying Mac, about more than saving a keystroke here and there.
(Hardcore dev here, not UX, not UI.)