Sure sounds like a race. Building race-free software is hard, disciplined work, and may require blocking proposals for "hot" new features. So the cooler heads tend to lose those skirmishes, on either a FOSS or commercial battleground.

> In this case, it's hopefully because of the thing it toggled and not the UI.

I think this is true, since I get Gnome crashes in the bluetooth settings and nowhere else.

Have you reported that as a bug?

The 1 button instantly starting the microwave for 1 minute annoys me often. I want to set the timer for 15 seconds so I can walk away. For 1 minute, double-tapping the 30s button is sufficient.

The real annoyance, though, is that pressing cancel/off does absolutely nothing if the microwave is being used as a timer (without the microwave itself running). When the timer beeps, my first thought is to press cancel/off. Then press it again a few times, because it's still beeping. Then I remember that there's a dedicated button (somewhere in the middle of the panel, labeled with small text) to cancel the timer.

Gnome continues to be created even today with C and JS.

After a few years of Windows, this week I installed Ubuntu again, and it's full of crazy bugs. Though no crashes yet! So at least they improved on that a lot.

I think people have far more complaints about Gnome than Mac and far more people use the latter.