That's the problem, I don't care about whatever they do, but when they remove stuff that the rest of us have been using for decades because windows doesn't do it, that is a problem.

Improvements shouldn't break things.

Tell that to the gnome team whose main design philosophy is to remove things people love then fight really hard to justify it.

I haven't used gnome since about 2000. Englightenment, IceWM, fluxbox, blackbox ring a bell, but it's been xfce for the last decade (well just the panel and the window manager)