By skyforbes There are many DE's out there and whatever your preference is you can pretty much pick and choose whichever you want. Gnome, like it or not, is one of those ways to do things; just like how KDE does things their way or Cinnamon theirs. If you want a traditional desktop go for xfce, KDE (you can turn that one into anything you want really), Cinammon or just style Gnome into it. If you want gnome 2 there's MATE which is still being somewhat alive. If you want nome for Gnome you go Gnome.
Do we see people calling the xfce devs fascists, paid opposition by microsoft to ruin Linux, redhat corpo puppets or that their userbase is "crayon-munching toddlers with room temperature IQ"? There are better ways to frame things and create discussion. Point out the things that do not work and that you do not like, but it does not need to involve name-calling or rudity which seems to be what all discussions around Gnome devolve into.