Such a weird article. Gnome is an awesome desktop, and I can only assume the article author is used to Windows.

No desktop icons? Yeah we don't use that anymore, it's not 1990. We type one or two chars in the program name and press enter. If you want icons, you can have it through extensions, but it's a very old paradigm and you really should stop clicking icons to start programs. There is no need.

Gnome has a single button for Do Not Disturb, and now you have no notifications from any programs bothering you while working. How cool is that? Being able to actually focus.

I could go on but I don't actually care enough to do so. Someone being wrong on the Internet is OK. :)