Comment by lelanthran

> If Apple or Microsoft had something like this "misfeature" in their OS, they could and likely would lose sales.

I disagree. Microsoft and Apple[1] had both had immense blunders that users hated, yet those users still paid money for the blunders.

At least with Gnome, people switched.

[1] I've used almost all the Window Managers and Desktop environments since 1995, I've used Windows since 1995. The current apple GUI is more painful to figure out than I had expected when I started using it last year. It's easily one of the least intuitive environments that I've come across, and watching non-tech users struggle with it reinforces my point.