I like gnome shell, (although I like kde even more so I use that), but that doesn't mean I'm going to agree with the outrageous views expounded by the gnome devs: "Please Remove the tray icon functionality we don't use it anymore", "You have to decide if you are a gnome app or not", "I'm against having use themes", etc. I don't think it is the gnome shell that was under attack recently it was the attitude of the gnome 3.0 towards the user/contributors.