Modern Paint replacement?

Hey, for some time I've wondered about whether there is a actual replacement for mspaint. Of course, there's a wide choice of other graphics programs, but they are all leaps and bounds outside of what mspaint is meant to be. It's like comparing VSCode, or better yet Visual Studio to Notepad. The difference is that Notepad has what I'd call a good replacement - Notepad++. It's a small and easy to use program, it boots almost instantly (very important), doesn't use any runtimes. I've tried looking for such a program to replace mspaint, but couldn't find anything that suited me. My "ideal", if you will, mspaint replacement would be written in Win32 API, or some other library capable of drawing native widgets like wxWidgets (binary size would suffer, though). It'd be a bit more advanced than mspaint, having a non-intrusive support for layers, transparency, some basic effects such as blur. Paint.net is almost what I've described, but it uses a runtime, booting it for the first time takes much more time than I'd like and I don't really like it's interface. On the Notepad-Visual Studio spectrum, it lies somewhere below VSCode, by way of the virtues described. So, my question is - do you know such a program? I thought about creating one myself (C++ with wxWidgets), but it'd propably end up like most of my other projects, predictably.

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