On the contrary. I hadn’t used gnome since 2017, and back then it was absolute junk. Upon installing NixOS two weeks ago, I went with the default desktop environment for while, and this was gnome. I thought at first that NixOS had tweaked gnome into being nice, but my colleague assured me that this is how gbome is today.

More mimalistic, drawing inspiration from macOS.

I still have to remove stuff rather than add stuff to get to where I want. But it wasn’t the first thing I removed on a new install.