The problem is that Gnome authors didn't gave a chance to try -- they've just made a beta version lacking most functionality of the previous incarnations and sh

The problem is that Gnome authors didn't gave a chance to try -- they've just made a beta version lacking most functionality of the previous incarnations and shipped it along with all problems of fresh version of Gtk and systemd saying "Look how we've made Gnome better!". No wonder almost everybody hated this almost instantly.