No, but a consistent policy of ideology over pragmatics probably is reason enough to say that a project "sucks". The saying goes, "Don't let the perfect be the

No, but a consistent policy of ideology over pragmatics probably is reason enough to say that a project "sucks". The saying goes, "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good." GNOME as a whole has precisely the opposite take on things, even when consistently the perfect doesn't yet exist. Seemingly every decision is coming down to someone saying "the right thing to do is for the system to just know what the user should want with no input required from them", which might be an admirable goal, but one that's not attainable, and the second best option isn't "have the system do something no one wants with no input required from them."