"An experienced developer should be mature enough to know that he and his kind should not be the target audience of his product. And putting in all those little checkboxes makes a product a horrible experience for the rest of the world."

Too bad Gnome developers are so far removed from UX and the desires of the "common user" it isn't funny

They took "removing stuff" as their mission and follow it blindly.

Or for a car analogy: Gnome removes the clutch but it doesn't give a torque converter and automatic transmission.