Large FOSS projects are social movements, because they have to attract contributors somehow, and they reflect the wider culture. I read modern GNOME as a sympto

Large FOSS projects are social movements, because they have to attract contributors somehow, and they reflect the wider culture. I read modern GNOME as a symptom of longue duree (historiographical term, meaning something that exists for a long time in the unspoken background) of Jobesian thinking that people caught as users and designers. There might be all sorts of economic justifications for mainstream proprietary tech doing this, but for a well-funded FOSS project it has to had become a cultural thing.