Comment by prmoustache

The earlier versions weren't as polished as what we have right now and it felt like we were missing features that were working fine on the latest gnome 2 release but this is all in the past. It happened in 2011.

Ironically the same happened in the kde world a few years before. I had been a very happy user of kde 3.x and kde 4.x happened to be a crashy pos and it only really got better with kde5.