My points in your quote are:
There does not seem to be "an unwilling *majority*" (as you write);
GNOME, like any free software project, is not "a dictatorship" (as you
write).
My other points are:
GNOME Shell is a more efficient interface than the previous GNOME Panel when
you learn to use it with the keyboard (I agree it is less efficient if you
only use the mouse);
Learning the few keybings to seize this improved efficiency is not that hard,
a matter of days to get the habit of them.
Also, I agree with onpon4, GNOME Shell is not "unintuitive". It only is
different.
