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I'm a big fan of Gnome 3 and have been since (almost) the beginning (Gnome 3.4), and I think this is an extremely fair criticism/analysis. I agree with all of

I'm a big fan of Gnome 3 and have been since (almost) the beginning (Gnome 3.4), and I think this is an extremely fair criticism/analysis. I agree with all of your criticisms (except we might quibble a bit on Nautilus, which I generally find pretty good but definitely not as feature-rich as some alternatives, so your point stands), although none of those have been deal-breakers for me personally. Despite my love for Gnome (and preference for over all others), there have definitely been frustrations over the years at design decisions and developer attitudes (lots of "I know better" and "you're using it wrong" which sometimes has it's place and within reason can be healthy, but in many cases I think was uncalled for). Still though, I think what the Gnome team has built is incredible

2b3a51 1y ago
Oddly enough for reasons(+) I've been looking into Gnome's workflows and I have Debian Wheezy with 3.4 on an old machine and Debian 12 with Gnome 43 on the current laptop. I spent a happy hour drawing 'workflow diagrams' based on my interactions with the UI doing ordinary stuff. As might be expected most of the time I was in the 'desktop view' i.e. interacting with windows in one or more spaces. Only a small % of time was spent in either of the overviews (activities and applications, now relegated to an icon on the Dash). Can you isolate what it is about Gnome 3/4 that you like more than (say) a traditional bottom bar DE like xfce? (+)Looking at Endless OS. They use Gnome DE but with some modifications that I was trying to pin down the logic of. Main one is a persistent Dash that auto-hides.