I would love to run gnome exactly like it looked before they switched to unity. I know they switched back to gnome but the default shell still looks like belong

I would love to run gnome exactly like it looked before they switched to unity. I know they switched back to gnome but the default shell still looks like belongs on a tablet (which is a great device and all, but my Linux machine is a workstation, not an internet/communication device), with most (if not everything) hidden instead of being showed in menus. I tried I3WM at one point, but even with the ability to have tabs I just didn't end up with enough pixel space.