By "silly tweaks" he's probably referring to the default GNOME 3 experience in Ubuntu 17.10 and 18.04, which in my book is how GNOME 3 should be out of the box. I almost gave up on GNOME 3 a couple of months ago but after trying Ubuntu 17.10 I changed my mind. Everything I hate about GNOME 3 is fixed in Ubuntu: you have tray icons, desktop icons, minimize buttons, fixed task bar, etc. Ubuntu saved GNOME 3's ass from a user's perspective, they should be thankful.
"GNOME 3.26 no longer shows status icons in the bottom-left of the screen. This prevents the status icon tray from getting in the way and is expected to provide a better overall experience."
The status icon tray was not in the way at all, it was hidden in the lower left corner of the screen. And since the applications that uses the tray will assume that the tray is still there, I'm guessing that they will continue to run in the background without the user knowing?
Why is everyone putting all their energy bashing at Systemd and Lennart instead of complaining to the distro maintainers? Turn your anger at Red Hat, Fedora, openSUSE, etc, they are the ones pushing Systemd down the throat of the Linux community. In the end, the distros decides what software to include by default, nobody forced the distos to switch to Systemd. "But Gnome 3 depends on Systemd!" So what??? Boycott Gnome 3 then and don't ship it with your next release, it's not like there are no alternatives!
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By "silly tweaks" he's probably referring to the default GNOME 3 experience in Ubuntu 17.10 and 18.04, which in my book is how GNOME 3 should be out of the box. I almost gave up on GNOME 3 a couple of months ago but after trying Ubuntu 17.10 I changed my mind. Everything I hate about GNOME 3 is fixed in Ubuntu: you have tray icons, desktop icons, minimize buttons, fixed task bar, etc. Ubuntu saved GNOME 3's ass from a user's perspective, they should be thankful.
"GNOME 3.26 no longer shows status icons in the bottom-left of the screen. This prevents the status icon tray from getting in the way and is expected to provide a better overall experience." The status icon tray was not in the way at all, it was hidden in the lower left corner of the screen. And since the applications that uses the tray will assume that the tray is still there, I'm guessing that they will continue to run in the background without the user knowing?
Why is everyone putting all their energy bashing at Systemd and Lennart instead of complaining to the distro maintainers? Turn your anger at Red Hat, Fedora, openSUSE, etc, they are the ones pushing Systemd down the throat of the Linux community. In the end, the distros decides what software to include by default, nobody forced the distos to switch to Systemd. "But Gnome 3 depends on Systemd!" So what??? Boycott Gnome 3 then and don't ship it with your next release, it's not like there are no alternatives!