Ah, figured out why GIMP kept their legacy drop-shadow when they brought out their fancy dynamic filter in ver 3.
If you turn down the opacity of the text layer, the new shadow disappears, but if you put it on a separate layer, you can control its opacity separately.
#GIMP3
Bosque Bill
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