Gnome's sharpest edge is that it has tried to simplify to the point that it doesn't have a UI for the thing I want to do. There might be an extension, and if I'm really lucky, it isn't broken and actually supports the current version.

I've been using it on my tablet, as I do find it to be a nice UI for the touchscreen, but I may switch to KDE because Gnome's onscreen keyboard is horrid, and difficult to replace.

It has plenty of them, especially for former power users pre-GNOME 3.0, starting with JavaScript for all extensions, famous for its early memory leaks, and the whole deal having to install several extensions to get the old behaviours back.

And then they decided the Windows registry is such a good idea, they should replicate it.