Thanks for the tip. I think the fundamental disagreement here is on the definition of usability. Perhaps something like the product of ergonomics and discovera

Thanks for the tip. I think the fundamental disagreement here is on the definition of usability. Perhaps something like the product of ergonomics and discoverability? Cluttered UIs are visually distracting and harder to learn but the lack of modality is, IMO more ergonomic. That tradeoff always exists and I think the Gnome devs pretty consistently lean too far towards the easy to learn side which results in less usable UIs for everyone but people just learning the software for the first time.