Customization is necessary especially in the free software space because designers aren’t good enough to make acceptable defaults.

I love KDE, but each new install takes a bit of fiddling to get it just the way I want.

I wouldn’t have as much of an issue with GNOME’s lack of customization if they didn’t make stupid-ass decisions.

just used the salad fork for seafood.

What’s wrong with using the same fork for salad and seafood?

I genuinely hope history remembers the GNOME desktop as “it was good, and then they started making some really stupid decisions!”