Sounds a bit like a straw man to me: if you don't want to hear any criticism, better label all of it as 'rant' or 'hate' and be done with it.
Actually some of the comments to Otte's post make very reasonable objections, many of which have been uttered since the beginning of the whole Gnome 3 disaster and, to the extent of my knowledge, haven't been answered in a satisfactory way, see f.i.
In any case, the Gnome devs themselves are realizing that they lost quite a good part of the previous Gnome users, see for instance "the bad" in the "Future of Gnome" presentation at the currently ongoing GUADEC (http://blogs.gnome.org/otte/2012/07/27/staring-into-the-a...).
To pretend that all were well if it wasn't for a small vocal minority of people ranting about the good old times of Gnome 2.x is just hiding your head in the sand.