After creating a path, every single function in the menus was examined
in search of the /text along path/ function. It does not
exist. According to this guide:

https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-image-text-management.html

the _Layer_ menu should have a “Text along Path” function. It’s simply
not there. This feature has apparently been entirely lost from the
UI. There is a Paths dialog box which contains a “Paint along path”
function, but no *text* along path.

Some extra background:

It should be noted as well that GIMP is extremely fragile and crash
prone when used on wayland. This bug:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1073788

only mentions threshold as a trigger but any operation with the
textbox tool also crashes GIMP and freezes my system. So I cannot
touch the textbox function. Hence why the “Text along Path” function
was sought. I thought it could be a workaround to the dysfunctional
textbox tool.