Well arguably, one shouldn't be too surprised if people get more and
more pissed off by GNOME _upstream_ .
They continuously try to push their agenda through and force their
blessings (most of the time broken, e.g. NM, GNOME Shell) on all users.
If you don't like Gnome, nobody is forcing you to use it.
There are alternatives. e.g. KDE. I use Awesome myself.
Trying to say "[GNOME upstream] continuously try to [...] force their blessings on all users." is just wrong. Nobody is forced to use Gnome.