I agree.
There are a lot of good arguments for the new save functionality on this thread,
and I respect that some users may want the new functionality. However, I am a
long-time user of Gimp and I do not want this change.
For me, the new save functionality is more hazardous than the old save
This is a valid point of human behavior on software. It doesn't matter
how many warnings software might offer, the user develops habits and
eventually, for convenience sake, clicks on things very habitually.
THIS is why malware still gets installed on users' machines despite all
of the UAC
