So GIMP is out of the question for you because it can do too much in a too high quality ?
Not at all what I said. I said it's overkill. If a fly lands on your head, would you hope someone takes a sledgehammer to it to kill the fly or would it be better to have them use a flyswatter instead? I mean the sledgehammer would definitely do the job and you know it'd swat that fly flat. But it's overkill. Who opens a whole suite just to do a quick edit?
Imagemagick is out of the question because its batchprocessing is too professional ?
Not sure where this is coming from? I don't believe anyone mentioned Imagemagick prior to you. Oh it does batch processing? Very cool. Not sure how that helps me with this simple edit I might need to do, but very cool.
You want a jack-of-all-trades, master of none ?
Yes. A 'swiss army knife' for light, quick image editing. In and out. One image, nothing that needs a batch operation. Just the one image, quickly.
I do not understand you.
I think that might be mutual and I think we've probably derailed this discussion enough so I'm willing to drop it here. Different people have different expectations of their tools. Not every tool is perfect for every person.