Arg yeah sweet indeed, pronounciation is just no guide at all in English (neither in Dutch btw)...
...Seat, sweat, chaste, caste, Leigh, eight, height, Put, nut, granite, and unite. ... [0]
And I do agree on the very high amount of pixels wasted in the top panel, expecially on an ultrawide monitor, something MacOS does better. On a laptop screen it's ok for me.
:-D A wonderful poem. When I was a TEFL teacher, I sometimes tortured advanced students with it.
As for the panel... well, Dash-to-Panel tames it:
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1160/dash-to-panel/
... but it does not handle vertical mode well. E.g. Status icons should be in rows, not a single column.
... Sweet?
I don't like GNOME. I don't like GNOME accessories; I hate CSD and hamburger menus and that big empty wasted top panel. I want more things vertical, while GNOME is moving its vertical workspace-switcher to horizontal.
The Cosmic tiling is good. That's an improvement. GNOME's window management sucks, and this is better.
I also really don't like systemd-boot and it broke one of my laptops severely.
So, I am happy that it is good for you, but it is not something I'd choose.