On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Joe Zeff <joe@zeff.us> wrote:
Mostly, however, I think that they don't understand that not everybody who wants to use Gnome likes to do things the way they do, or if they do know, they don't care.
They understand that just fine and that is why the extension system has been created and dozens and dozens of extensions exist and are widely used. Your fear about breakages are not realistic in recent releases. From the next release, extensions are even auto-updated on demand so there is even less reason to worry about them.