My criticism isn't of GNOME en masse, but of this Attitude of "The users must be protected from apps and also from themselves". Other posts have outlined some o

My criticism isn't of GNOME en masse, but of this Attitude of "The users must be protected from apps and also from themselves". Other posts have outlined some of the concrete issues related to these decisions - usually when developers choose to intentionally remove functionality and knowingly cause user pain, it is in the service of some greater benefit; "This sucks, but users will have a net gain in the end" My point is, the "net gain" simply isn't there - it's unclear if there is any gain at all from these decisions that plainly cause user difficulty!