I use fish as my default user interactive shell but I still agree with you. I despise this philosophy of "configurability is the root of all evil" coming from f

I use fish as my default user interactive shell but I still agree with you. I despise this philosophy of "configurability is the root of all evil" coming from fish and "every preference has a cost" coming from GNOME. I think these projects are extremely opinionated and they will inevitably drive a lot of users away. Both fish and GNOME strive to provide "good" defaults out of the box but those defaults will never appeal to everyone. I ended up liking fish but I still despise GNOME and everything related to it.