I don’t use gnome and after switching to hyperland prefer not to have my compositor draw anything other than windows, so I can understand where you’re coming from, but for gnome i’d want to keep it, namely cause its used for:

• System controls including power/logout are there as well as switching audio devices through an extension.
• clock
• system indicators (what else are you going to do about applications that unmap their window on close, like discord?)

No the vast majority of people really don’t need this. The feature can be nice to have. If you don’t have it you’ll go around tapping your credit card like normal. That’s how I see most people around me make payments.

You could make the argument that not having these bells and whistles can make your platform seem less attractive and to an extent that might be true but I think you’re missing the point.

No one said Linux phones should launch and be immediately competitive with android/apple flagship products day one.

People who care enough about FOSS and privacy have ample reason to accept the trade off of not having some of these niche features.

Never used this feature. I think this sort of QOL feature is something I’d be happy to wait on. The ecosystem doesn’t need this to launch at least imo.

I love hyprland and even anime but having waifus prebuilt into the compositor installation is too much.

Anything I can do through my banking app I could just as email do through the browser

How many things to you really use your phone for anyway.

Personally all I need is the basic things like a camera app, maps, authenticator, web browser, pdf reader, note taker, clock, etc.

It’s really not that much