It's pretty funny that Firefox was praised back in the day for removing most of the core functionality and configurability of SeaMonkey and leaving the rest to

It's pretty funny that Firefox was praised back in the day for removing most of the core functionality and configurability of SeaMonkey and leaving the rest to extensions, and now Gnome 3 is lambasted for doing the same thing. You get upgrade hell with Firefox extensions too, btw. I see that as a necessary tradeoff; I don't want core development bogged down by BC, and I want my extensions to be maintained and improved.