[sophacles]

It's possible that your subjective opinion of what makes a good UI differs from the subjective opinion of the people doing the work on Gnome.

I'd need some strong evidence that they are selling you to some other party in order to enrich their investors. Who are these investors? How do they even get profits from Gnome? What choices have been made that let 3rd party companies get better access to you/your data from Gnome itself?

Differences of opinion aren't evidence of intentionally screwing over users in order to get more money for investors.