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> but aiming at being the mobile environment first

I'd say, being 'touch environment first', not mobile. And it resulted in a very poor UX for mouse users, while touch GNU/Linux computers never appeared (except androids, but they have no use for gnome anyway).

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GNOME has excellent support for keyboard based navigation BTW. Almost anything can be done with the keyboard. Most shell actions has a keyboard shortcut.

They could have done it without taking away convenient menus. Previously all apps had standardized interface, now everyone invents the bicycle for themselves.

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