Is Gnome user-friendly?

[Elegant_Emperor]

@Aravisian

As long as Only Gnome Developers can theme Gnome, then they are back in Full Control.
Just
Like
Microsoft.

A Bold Statement....

@Aravisian I have a lot of points to make but I will be saying a few. All of the above statements that I made earlier were mostly based on my personal experience. I understand your difficulty in getting your themes to work.

@Aravisian

I do not see how a person can claim that having settings at your disposal is "Overwhelming".

I don't know if I used the wrong words but what I meant to say is that with too many options and settings to change busy users would feel very annoyed and would rather leave the DE and change to something simpler (as in gnome...I did not find you arguing with that) than waste their time in tweaking the system.

@Aravisian

A dull and bland desktop makes the user feel dull and bland logging in and getting to work.

Gnome is not dull and bland! I think the image of GNOME DE that I have attached below justifies that.

@Aravisian

A user is often more Productive when they enjoy their desktop. A dull and bland desktop makes the user feel dull and bland logging in and getting to work. And if they must spend many hours at that workbench, it is all the worse.
But a customized desktop that they enjoy and invigorates them, leads to more pep in their work and better productivity.

This is easily demonstrated by looking at how Companies promote their websites.
The same logic that is used to claim workers are somehow less productive on a workbench they have no control over (Which is an interesting point all on its own how Gnome removes user control... Is Gnome only catering to businesses seeking to crack the whip on employees?) would apply to a website UI, that it therefor is intended to get out of the way and be the least engaging as possible in order to get the customer to focus on the product.
Yet, corporations and businesses do the exact opposite. UI on business websites are engaging and seek to appeal to a customers aesthetics. The better the UI is, the better their sales.

I am sorry, I did not understand this point....Gnome looks much more appealing than XFCE.

@Aravisian

Instead of asserting without evidence, provide statistics.

You asked for it...and here I give.

(Poll) Which desktop environment do you use on your daily machine?

Just looking for some data on which environment you trust the most, run the most and prefer the most? poll

Gnome->55%
XFCE->18%
(At the time of writing this post)

@Aravisian

Whether you are bothered by the inconsistencies that I have outlined and shown to be real and true or not; it becomes a matter of simple confirmation bias to reject it by claiming Gnome as Elegant and beautiful.

You don't find GNOME elegant or beautiful but you think XFCE is?

XFCE

GNOME

I think we have a very different taste when it comes to UI.

@Aravisian

Gnome lacks functional features it has consistently removed for many years.

As I had said before:

@Elegant_Emperor

What I think is that Gnome is more focused on productivity than on functionality.

@Aravisian

GDM

I have found LightDM issues in the forum as well. I used the search function of the forum to find lightdm issues. Honestly though, I prefer lightdm and sddm also.

@Aravisian

Gnome-Software

If you mean the software store then I agree with you.

@Aravisian

The disaster that is Epiphany browser

I have found people giving nice remarks about epiphany browser and to tell the truth I prefer epiphany browser myself...It is very light and can be used for all things that you can expect from a browser. It lacks features but that also makes it lightweight.

@Aravisian

There are Hundreds of threads by users other than me that point out many buggy Gnome apps.

I never found any bug in nautilus or other gnome app. Why don't you check out the forums of other distributions that do not use gnome as its default DE and you will find people struggling with apps of other DEs as well.
Finally I want to suggest:
Why not convert this thread into a Poll and see what the majority of the people think?