Gnome 2 was great.
Gnome 3 was 10 steps back. And the arrogance of doing it their way just because they like to, not minding usefulness.
So I just am not been using Gnome anymore.
Cinnamon, which does what I want and need and doesn't get in my way. And if it does, an opened issue fixes that, quickly too.
Gnome is like everything from freedesktop.org opinionated, arrogant and ignorant