I don’t vote. I care about my children. Somehow these are compatible statements

That’s false, not sure why you would say that. Literally just visit the download page

https://krita.org/en/download/

It’s quite the testament that the Blender name is known to the masses (hope you don’t mind me calling you the masses)

yea, when it really is a batch-pixel-value-changer !

I don’t think the issue is that it implies something negative, it’s that it does a poor job of conveying the nature of open-source, ie free as in free speech, not free as in free beer.