[tekeous]

As someone who uses stock GNOME on Fedora with only minor theme tweaks on most of my devices - speak for yourself! On my touchscreen laptop the large buttons are welcome, and when scaled down on a 4K display it doesn’t matter that much. On my desktop I do use arc-theme however, so I see where you’re coming from.

[smoldesu]

I think GTK3 was the sweet spot. I used GNOME 3 for a while on the desktop and it was really nice once you tossed some extensions in (and replaced the ugly Adwaita colorscheme). Then I updated to GNOME 40 and felt physical repulsion, so I moved to Plasma, probably for good. I'd love to explore the timeline where the maintainers didn't axe a ton of features/support and instead focused on doing their own thing really well. Now all we have is a lame Mac clone, and they can't even deny it anymore.