I personally _have_ stuck with cinnamon (and toyed with mate, too, but imho GTK3 itself has enough nice things to justify using it.) So far cinnamon has mostly

I personally _have_ stuck with cinnamon (and toyed with mate, too, but imho GTK3 itself has enough nice things to justify using it.) So far cinnamon has mostly been able to roll back the worst of the changes, and I haven't had many complaints. But the push to do things like encourage every piece of software to draw its UI into the window decorations isn't something cinnamon can fix... they'd have to fork the world.