And, as explained, it doesn't matter. The problems, at root, are human psychology and incompatible but popular software, and that's sufficient to drive people away. And the issues are not new: we had exactly that with Windows Vista.

And this is why I don't recommend any DE other than Gnome, and why Gnome is the only desktop supported by corporate distros (RHEL, Suse, Ubuntu).

It's pretty much guaranteed if someone is having issues, they're using a DE that's not Gnome.