Wasn’t Gnome 2 already an attempt to clean up/remove features that had cropped into Gnome 1? I recall ‘veteran users of Gnome’ complaining about the lack of set

Wasn’t Gnome 2 already an attempt to clean up/remove features that had cropped into Gnome 1? I recall ‘veteran users of Gnome’ complaining about the lack of settings/options back in 2005.