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They don't do it "senselessly"- the design clearly works for me and millions of other Gnome users.
It's fine if you don't like it but there's no need to bash clear design choices.
I don't particularly care for KDE design choices but a lot of people like it so what's it to me? I'm happy for them.
Define "design", because there are some choices which I agree with as well. But mostly that's about appearance (and the flattening of stuff is making it worse, and it all could be more compact).
As I've already said, I was talking about things they copy senselessly. Like buttons in titlebars and customization requiring you to use Google because of like 4 separate apps for setting up the same thing.
Cinnamon (set up similarly to vanilla Gnome 3, but without overview lagging and customization being PITA) is the mainstream DE I've used for the longest period of time.
Millions? LOL Maybe thousands, and if it is millions, it's far more likely that it's on a distro that puts forth a huge library of extensions to get around Gnome's senseless design choices so they can maintain gtk operability....which has been waning lately.
There are plenty of people using it, with inertia and Fedora being a thing. Seemingly even more than around 2012 when actually encountering people consciously using it was unusual, but everybody would talk how Gnome 2 was better, and it was.