I love Gnome, I'm now using Mac OS for my day to day desktop, but I would argue (subjectively, though) that Gnome is the best desktop environment, period, including Windows and Mac.

I totally agree with all the points in the post - the only problem Gnome has is the extension ecosystem. The idea of extensions is nice and few are awesome - but in practice most of them are low quality.

I really miss Gnome, and still use it for my secondary laptop, which I don't get to use that often.