Just to get that straight, gparted doesn't crash on armel/hf in general. It works fine on my Cubieboard2 (armhf) and it worked fine in my qemu-arm installation (armel).
It only crashes in ED, no matter if armel or armhf.

For reference:
This is the error message which appears right after the GUI comes up, tries to scan available devices and crashes:strace doesn't reveal any further useful info (at least to my understanding) and google doesn't return any results.
As I said, I have no idea how to debug that, but then again I'm a very poor programmer (as in writing C(++) code). So if somebody else has any pointers (pun intended) I'd be happy to assist in tracking the problem down as good as I can.

Debian is around for more than 20 years now and it's the base for the vast majority of the distributions out there.
To my understanding, if Debian gets to the point where its future becomes questionable the whole FLOSS ecosystem is in big trouble.