[pengwinhayden]

Those moves are made by Red Hat, to benefit their enterprise customers, because enterprise customers are the ones who pay for Linux, their interests get top priority.

Shuttleworth did so much for desktop Linux by mailing us all free install CDs, but then users everywhere began to expect Linux to be free as in beer.

But until users are willing to pay for desktop Linux again, like some of us may remember, enterprise will always win out.

[int_19h]

It's not obvious to me from looking at Gnome that it is the way it is to "benefit the enterprise customers". If anything, I'd expect the DE that does that to be much more conservative about its UX choices, and sticking more closely to established industry standards (i.e. "what Windows does") to minimize the need for retraining and such.