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You mean the designers who did something like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/1nrcvok/i_dont_see_t...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45391654

For all the hate it receives, Libadwaita is one of the nicest designed toolkits currently in-use that has more than a dozen applications using it.

Having an entire CSS engine at their disposal certainly does help the designers design without needing to know programming.

That surprises me. What kind of decision process ends up choosing to hide the primary clock in a desktop OS. It's funny imagine the meeting, people voting "yes" to this. Not even in the tiny screens (by comparison) of phones this has been done (probably proposed somewhere sometime, but thankfully denied).

The problem isn’t enough designers, it’s too many.

There are conflicting design goals throughout the UI. All could be good/great with a cohesive system, but there is none.

To answer your question, the same people that wanted the system to be a Tier 1 mobile/tablet UI.