Yup. Nine years to get to a point that wasn't a pain in the arse to use and then they switched up the versioning so people wouldn't be reminded of GNOME 3.God, I remember that initial release of GNOME 3 and how god-awful it was.
Interestingly, KDE also had this problem when they released KDE 4. They changed too much and that's where the *krashes* memes about KDE originate from, it also fundamentally changed how they go about developing the underlying bones of the DE and the individual apps. There was a good documentary released a month or so ago for KDEs 30th that talks to all the devs and includes some clips with Miguel de Icaza who was the original developer and lead of GNOME.
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