The main trouble with GIMP (and Inkscape) is lack of first-class CMYK, making it irrelevant for any print-targeting activity. Otherwise the features have advanced in the last few years and the coherence is not bad, the photoshop crowd being in the same ballpark for me.
This makes total sense. GIMPs problem was never feature quality or quantity, it was mostly focus and coherence.
A single person brings that.