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I share some of your sensibilities regarding the lack of features being a possible advantage. But I don't think the Gnome Project is one that values minimalism

I share some of your sensibilities regarding the lack of features being a possible advantage. But I don't think the Gnome Project is one that values minimalism in software design that much. And I think it's valid to for there to be projects that choose to sacrifice minimalism for other advantages. I think Gnome is one of those projects, so I think Matrix is a good fit for it.

throwaway82652 4y ago
In some aspects it does, for example a lot of Gnome apps have very minimal designs. That's ok for individual apps. The problem is, you can't really apply that to a chat tool that needs to be used by everyone in a large community. The problem space itself requires you to deal with a lot of complex and competing interests and make difficult compromises, so you can't always please the minimalists trying to run IRC bots off a ESP32.