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I very much doubt that they will, because Gnome heavily uses the obnoxious UI paradigm where controls are hidden away, and you need to perform "magic gestures" (like moving the mouse cursor into a corner) to even get them to show up.

I don't even understand why they thought it would be a good idea. On mobile there is at least the justification that it helps keep the valuable screen estate for "important things" (although anecdotally I've seen how much more my mother and grandmother both struggle with button-less iPhones because they can't remember the gestures). But on the desktop, even on laptops, it is a very weak argument.

Intuition is based on prior exposure. What exposure do i need to understand GNOME?

For example, how am i supposed to discover how to maximize a window?

Gnome is as simple as Windows 8.0. Maybe even less. We know the history about Windows 8.0.

Gnome made several decisions toat make it super complex for normal users. Windows have a taskbar. Mac have a dock. KDE have a taskbar.

And I really like Gnome design language, UI. But the UX is awful.