The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

> That wouldn't be a problem if the GNOMEs were announcing this as a design concept instead of something several major distributions are going to ship as the default over the next couple of months.

Well, those major distributions you refer to, happen to be 'bleeding-edge' distributions with a 6 month release cycle, which pretty much is intended to try out software and improve things like Gnome 3.

If you'd be using an Enterprise Linux distribution, Gnome 3 will not appear for at least 2 years and by then it will be more polished and supported by the vendors.

If you don't want to run software that is not at signed-off by a large support-organization, than don't run a bleeding-edge distribution.