@TerminalAutism @charliebrownau @coin @furgar @udon I still remember the dumpster fire when Gnome 3 came out.
Gnome 2 was so good that almost every distro used it as its default (a notable one who didn't was OpenSUSE who went with KDE instead, and elementaryOS who always had their own thing anyway).
On the contrary, Gnome 3 was so bad, nobody except for Fedora wanted to have anything to do with it for a long time.

At that time I was already switching between Gnome 2, OpenBox, and AwesomeWM anyway, so it had a much smaller impact on me compared to many other Linux users.