I'm really glad to see this because I think we can now have a smarter conversation than the typical one on why people dislike Gnome so much and why it is okay,

I'm really glad to see this because I think we can now have a smarter conversation than the typical one on why people dislike Gnome so much and why it is okay, even good to criticize it. People get angry at me for insulting it because of the ridiculous "It's open source so you don't have the right to criticize" argument. As this shows, there's a lot of corporate contributions to the codebase. For better or (mostly) worse -- that means the project will likely have much more of a "proprietary-like" mentality than perhaps what we think of when we say Free/Open Source. This plays out, right? The thing people don't like about Gnome frequently boils down to backward-breakage and not being able to meaningfully contribute. And yet, Gnome enjoys a lot of popularity in the space that affects the "Linux" ecosystem, and I think the way they do things messes it up. This is why, for now, I am explicitly anti-Gnome. I hope it changes, or I hope it gets less popular.