It seems like the focus on GerbView's supported Gerber formats are extremely myopic towards KiCad. If the parser exists for the Gerber format, which it does, and KiCad can be a tool to view Gerbers from any other ECAD tool, it's hard for me to understand why that wouldn't be a useful feature.
For example, EAGLE import was just added. EAGLE has no built-in Gerber file extension (you can create a template and reload it on each project) so for users coming from EAGLE they may not be able to easily import Gerbers created with EAGLE. That's just one example.
It seems like the focus on GerbView's supported Gerber formats are extremely myopic towards KiCad. If the parser exists for the Gerber format, which it does, and KiCad can be a tool to view Gerbers from any other ECAD tool, it's hard for me to understand why that wouldn't be a useful feature.
For example, EAGLE import was just added. EAGLE has no built-in Gerber file extension (you can create a template and reload it on each project) so for users coming from EAGLE they may not be able to easily import Gerbers created with EAGLE. That's just one example.