Last week, some developers disagreeing with the direction of the GNOME Project decided to create what appears to be the beginning of a fork of the project -- GoneME. Like many from KDE Project and elsewhere in the community, GoneME's major complaints boil down to what has proven to be GNOME's most controversial move: simplifying the user interface.
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Why would I ever want to switch to a "dumbed down" interface? The reason itself is simple: I want my machine to get work done for me, not be work in itself.
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What GNOME has essentially done is declare it is leaving the era of complex computing and joining the world of simpler, easier systems that Mac users have been enjoying for decades.