You mean the Dock/Dash or the Minimize button? The Minimize button is still accessible on some windows if you right click the title bar and select "Hide". So t

You mean the Dock/Dash or the Minimize button? The Minimize button is still accessible on some windows if you right click the title bar and select "Hide". So the function is still there, just more annoying to access. And the Dock/Dash problem is actually linked to the minimize feature. Because when user click Minimize, the window then needs a place to be "minimized to" (and an animation is also need to show how it happened). Maybe the lack of Taskbar could be one of the reasons why Minimize button was removed? Just me guessing. I do respect your use case, but as a desktop environment, I don't think GNOME should implement it as default. But on the other hand, if GNOME is really committed to be a tiling-first desktop environment, then removing the Minimize button could be a reasonable plot on the roadmap.