Your unnecessary strawmanning was correctly predicted by the author.

> Because this isn’t my first rodeo, I can already foresee the criticism of this article: people are going to focus on my persona and my tone, not on what matters: GNOME‘s shitty practice.

And he was right. If I am giving you free fixes for your very real documented bugs, take them. You can hate me for it later, privately. At least that is what happens if you care about your users more than about your ego.

Sadly, this sane behavior is rare. And this is why the year of the Linux desktop will never happen.