That may have been true at one point, but post Gnome 2 exodus, a surface look will look like its good, but any deeper look will show its outdated. Its also not

That may have been true at one point, but post Gnome 2 exodus, a surface look will look like its good, but any deeper look will show its outdated. Its also not very maintainable/supportable, and while that is changing slowly, they've written themselves into a corner in some respects.