I too have to disagree with the author based on my experience. I use Gnome 3 at work, every day, and both my home computers are on Gnome 3. I use the Pop Gnome

I too have to disagree with the author based on my experience. I use Gnome 3 at work, every day, and both my home computers are on Gnome 3. I use the Pop Gnome theme from the very people the article talks about (System 76), it's a beautiful theme and can be installed on Ubuntu using their PPA. Anyway, At home I also use 3 monitors on my desktop. Lets say I have a "normal" sized terminal open on my right hand of 3 monitors. It's on the right one because my IDE or such is sitting in front of me on the centre monitor and as a lefty I tend to "prefer" the right to the left as I sit looking at my PC. I'm sitting with my chair shimmied to the right of my desk because these monitors are 28" each and I decide to move closer to that window to see what's going on because they're 4K monitors and the text isn't huge. I'm physically about ~4 feet away at the extreme in terms of mouse movement, from that app menu on the top left of my left monitor. As someone who tends to fill all of this screen space flatly with tiled windows as opposed to stacking and switching them, all I want is for every menu for every window to be directly attached to that window, because the "landmark" for me is the window itself. Having to move my mouse, 4 feet across displays to get to a menu for a small window I have open and happen to be working on at that point in nonsensical. I might have 16 terminals tiled across that display, if I want to interact with a specific one, lets say to change the background colour for identification or something, the first place I'm going is to the window itself. My solution, is that by using Gnome Tweak Tool, I have the button on the title bar of the window instead of in the panel.