It looks like many users like GNOME Shell (at least in this forum);
I did not claim that "nobody likes it", I pointed out that many didn't. There
is not one iota of untruth in that statement.
You can (and do) use another desktop;
Which was said in answer to the "baby duck syndrome" label, to which I
objected. I regarded it as an ad hominem attack - the "if you don't agree
with me, there's something wrong with you" line of reasoning. I think such
reasoning sucks.
GNOME is free software and has been forked by users who did not like the new
paradigm: MATE is a fork of GNOME 2, Cinnamon is a fork of GNOME Shell (well,
more a set of extensions that totally revamp it).
Your point being what?