"they are fundamentally telling us that they are disgruntled that we took away something that they had before. the sapid fact is that it does not matter if it w

"they are fundamentally telling us that they are disgruntled that we took away something that they had before. the sapid fact is that it does not matter if it was replaced by something better or if it was wrong to have it in the first place." It DOES matter when it is replaced by something better for them, not better for the GNOME guys. The GNOME guys consider removing features "better" because it makes their lives easier, less combinatorial bugs, less work designing, less work fixing, more centralization and why not to say it, ego boost and power(users do exactly what I design, how important I am). So the fact that something is "better" for them does not mean that the user is going to consider it "better". The fact that you are already forcing your users to learn something new is worse by default, so it has to be really much much better for them to have to change their own routines. Humans are routine animals. Don't break the routines.