Right, and as soon as 45 is the official version and 44 is deprecated, you won't have any extensions. That's not what I consider a stable DE, unless you're one

Right, and as soon as 45 is the official version and 44 is deprecated, you won't have any extensions. That's not what I consider a stable DE, unless you're one of the many people here who apparently simply don't use extensions at all and like the out-of-the-box experience. (And if you're one of those people, that's fine, but the whole issue here is customizability so this discussion doesn't apply to you. It's like joining a discussion about the challenges of being a minority and then saying "well I'm not a minority so I don't have these problems! You should be more like me!")