I recently switched from cinnamon to gnome, assuming that gnome had an extra few years to mature since I last used it but I found it still lacked so many featur

I recently switched from cinnamon to gnome, assuming that gnome had an extra few years to mature since I last used it but I found it still lacked so many features. Firstly, where is my taskbar? How do I add it? It took some tinkering about to find it. Where are my desktop icons? More tinkering. Why don't the desktop icons align to a grid? Why doesn't the file browser show me my free space? How do I add shortcuts to the top bar? Why are all the buttons so huge? I am genuinely surprised that gnome hasn't really moved on in the years since I last used it, and at this rate I'll probably end up going back to cinnamon.