I'm not sure this is bad? It's still maintained, and it isn't like there are frequent revolutions in UI design - if it works, it works.

Slow and boring is a pretty nice place to be.

If only it had stagnated around gnome 2.0.

The Gnome desktop that shipped with Solaris over two decades ago is just as useful, possibly more useful, as the tablet-oriented hamburger menu UI of today.

Yes, two decades: https://adtmag.com/articles/2003/08/04/solaris-gets-a-gnome-...

>> Gnome has stagnated significantly.

GTK is still alive. It seems like Cosmic desktop with GTK apps will be a reasonable path forward. Of course there's KDE and QT, but I mean as an alternative to those.

Could that be due to increased popularity of KDE?

Linux on the desktop isn't a lucrative business