That was me being melodramatic, but I was just reacting to these comments and quotes from the article:
However, the GNOME 40 looks like the unproductive thing that gives you pain," said one user, while another called the HIG “Insanity specified… How else would you come up with a filechooser no one can use, or an OK-Button of a dialog in the window title bar.”
Bray also said: “No PM [Product Manager] in history has ever said ‘This seems to be working pretty well, let’s leave it the way it is.’ Because that’s not bold. That’s not visionary. That doesn’t get you promoted.”
…some actions take more clicks or keypresses to accomplish, leading to complaints that the UI is designed to “make everything take as many clicks as possible.”
The HIG for GNOME 3.38 said almost the same thing: “Use progressive disclosure to show controls when they are needed… showing every possible control all the time makes an application harder to use, since users have to navigate controls that are often not relevant. Instead, only show controls when they are needed.”