I did not know that the GNOME 3 thing was such a big controversy. I dropped GNOME during that time for the same reasons, but i was unaware of how big this was.
Oh yeah, no. Multiple entire desktop environments with significant popularity (Cinnamon, MATE) owe their existence today to how universally hated GNOME 3 was, and how obstinant and intolerant the GNOME developers were towards differing opinions that challenged their "vision".
In fact, the same thing is sorta playing out even right now with GTK4 and other GNOME stuff, though I think with somewhat less public spectacle but arguably even larger development efforts behind it:
In fact, the same thing is sorta playing out even right now with GTK4 and other GNOME stuff, though I think with somewhat less public spectacle but arguably even larger development efforts behind it:
https://joshuastrobl.com/2021/09/14/building-an-alternative-...
https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/08/system76_developing_n...
https://blog.system76.com/post/closing-in-on-a-cosmic-alpha
https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/issues/141
https://medium.com/@fulalas/gnome-mess-is-not-an-accident-4e...