[PlutoIsAPlanet]

The only feature that GNOME misses imho that makes it unusable, are top bar icons. Apps are NOT going to drop them, many cross-platform applications people use on a day to day basis, can't be used properly without them.

It simply isn't viable to tell people for these apps to use alternatives, they don't exist when you're not in control of what your workplace uses. This makes an out the box gnome worse for working from home.

Yes, the API sucks for them and you have to poke some holes through sandboxes, but unless your Apple or Microsoft, you're in no position to get changes to these applications.

I don't really consider the lack of minimizing etc to make the OS unusable. GNOME is tasked and workspace based, and imho has the best workspaces of any mainstream desktop, it was built with workspaces in mind from day one, not tackled on after (e.g. Windows)