I feel like if someone thinks they'll try Linux and they pick a Gnome 3 distro to test, they won't stick around or won't appreciate Linux for the reasons many of us do. Gnome 3 is basically everything I don't like about Windows or OSX but for Linux.

I feel this way a lot about Gnome, and even Ubuntu's attempt at "Unity".

It wants to be Mac. It wants to be Windows. In the end it's like all of the worst parts of both, made in to a mutant of dis-congeniality. They want the familiarity and user experience of both, and in the end capture neither.

I think it is more about the underlying "paternalism" than any specific UI/UX design.

Damn it, i have seen a comment from a prominent Gnome developer basically stating that users are idiots. This based on some usability testing that was done back in the day, apparently.

So expect more and more out of Gnome, and by extension Freedesktop, to be about putting users in padded cells...

Unity at least had an exciting purpose behind it. I have no idea what the Gnome team were thinking when they designed 3.

I actually quite like some of the ideas in Deepin though

Gnome is running on wayland now by default though.