I think the design is bad, but maybe others find it pleasant. You've tried to replicate this with the pop-up palette. Things that are needed quickly are close at hand they are often unchanging. If you look at an artist's workspace, you'll see that everything is organized. The same is for the tool and brush options. Why would you ever work with every single available palette at once? Plus, there is no apparent or easy way to reset the dockers if a setting is changed. And the palettes all show as one big mess. This should be one docker with internal sliders or drop-downs for tweaking. Trying to figure out the color selectors (plural, correct) is ridiculous in over-complexity.

There are so many bells and whistles that need to be adjusted constantly, that no work can effectively be done. There appears to have been more time spent trying to make new features without ever considering productivity. Unless a user has been using Krita since version zero, and continually following all the changelogs, everything is trial, error, and frustration. Now, I'm aware that the program is still under development for the current version, and that documentation is coming at some point -but this version of Krita is not intuitive for use and counterproductive to use. And this is unfortunate because the latest version 4.3 has one of the worst interfaces for a productivity program I've seen in years. I'm not sure I even want to think about the massive amount of time that has gone into creating this program, it's daunting. I know that programs like these take a great deal of dedication and work to create. I decided to try it earlier this week, and the result is a very negative feeling about the program. I've seen a lot of work done with Krita in the past, and I heard many people discuss its usefulness in graphic work in the past too.

Krita review