Gnome has been making a lot of improvements and implied apologies lately. Adding a real tray by default, proper font rendering on fractional scaling,... Well maybe that's the two big ones for now, but those were also my two biggest gripes about their desktop.
Curious what you mean by "real tray by default"?
Notifications? Background apps? One of the AppIndicator shell extensions? Something else?
Really? GNOME has now a Tray and non GNOME apps are supported now?
What happen ? did the big ego guys left and they can now implement standards ?