I couldn't agree more. They have their HIG and their Adwaita design language, but the end result somehow is still subjectively off-putting for me personally, visual-wise and usage-wise. They need their Steve Jobs.
It's an OSS projects with the most abrasive, and socially inept people around, seemingly gathered together on purpose. GNOME had few hundred active contributors on its peak, now down to at most 20-30 people.
The proliferation of *Kits is very much an intentional policy by RedHat to pull the classical "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" scheme, except when they do the extinguish thing, the remaining people have no other option, but to move to RedHat's platform.
You are repeating unsubstantiated claims and accusations.
> The proliferation of *Kits is very much an intentional policy by RedHat to pull the classical "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" scheme, except when they do the extinguish thing, the remaining people have no other option, but to move to RedHat's platform.
And this is just conspiratorial. Really, this is not contributing anything to the discussion.