The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

For what it's probably not worth, unlike nix, I am a Gnome user with a workflow that is almost 1:1 with his, and I have tried doing day-to-day things with it for roughly half a day. And what can I say, it looks nice (shiny things are always a plus), but my productivity was severely reduced because of the necessary keyboard-mouse-keyboard dance. I'm sure non-power users will love it - but what about the rest of us?

I do wonder why opinions/insights from non-Gnome users are being, in my opinion, so arrogantly shot down. UIX feedback is always good, no? And this is a general observation by the way, not necessarily aimed at you personally. I've seen quite a bit of "Don't like it? Sod off, then." attitude over the past few weeks...