Never agreed more and these aren't isolated things.

I used to use my desktop as a scratch disk. Desktop icons used to be handled by an instance of Nautilus in much the same way as Explorer does in Windows.

Then one day, one developer disabled it. This followed a low-feedback discussion, a quick sermon that using the desktop was wrong, and that was that. Months later when this impacted popular cadence distributions, it was clear it was a problem but the limo promise that Gnome Shell extensions would be good enough, well... They've fallen far shorter than what I need.

My productivity has fallen because one dev who wanted the mantle of maintainer, took decisions for a million users without real consultation.