I was curious so I looked at the most recent stack overflow surveys that mention GTK. They actually say you're wrong. https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#sec

I was curious so I looked at the most recent stack overflow surveys that mention GTK. They actually say you're wrong. https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-most-popular-technologies-other-frameworks-and-libraries https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-most-popular-t... https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-other-frameworks-and-libraries https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-most-loved-dre... GTK has lower usage than Qt and Electron, but it's actually few percent higher on the "most loved" category than Qt and Electron. However all of them are below 50% loved. The percent GTK is above them is probably not enough to be important. And that's exactly what I'd expect: all these desktop toolkits have issues and are disliked. Electron and Qt are cross-platform so of course they would have higher usage than GTK, which has only ever really been popular on Linux. And none of it matters anyway. .NET wins it all by a large margin due to the popularity of Windows and the only other big GUI frameworks on there are Flutter and React Native. I'm honestly surprised GTK is even on the list at all, it wasn't there in previous years. I expected the list to be totally dominated by web frameworks and Python frameworks like it was before. This is kind of along the lines of what I've been trying to communicate to you. Complaining about these minor issues and playing the blame game between open source projects is pointless. Microsoft, Facebook and Google are the big boys in town, that's not gonna change by GNOME fixing some random low-priority bug.