Overview is when you press the Super ('Windows') key.

What appears is an unholy amalgamation of a launcher, a workspace strip, a window overview, workspace peeking, and a dock.

Worse yet is that every time you go in or out of this overview, an animation plays, making things fly and animate everywhere constantly, whenever you want to take any action.

Whenever someone points out to Gnome developers that most people only want to open a launcher to type "52*93" or find a contact, that they just want to mouse over a dock to have a lightweight way to see if an application is open (and to switch to it), they get irate and tell you their vision is vastly superior.

Gnome could be pretty great if the developers their attitude to their users wants and the feedback on their issue tracker wasn't extreme snark and "actually we are right". Even if clear UI defects are pointed out, no, in fact they are right.

The Gnome peoples also frustrate any attempt at improving Wayland at a more rapid clip.

There is a reason why Valve went with KDE. KDE has its own set of problems, but at least they are receptive, cooperative and friendly. I genuinely hope Valve puts enough money into KDE that Gnome with its high and mighty attitude gets completely railroaded.

Sounds awful. Luckily we still have other options. I hope I never have to use GNOME again.