I am 100% supportive of Gnome users and devs, and its right to exist. My opinion is that it looks the way it does and I wanted to share it. Some people prefer it for various reasons, and I think the reasons why I dislike it is why people like it.

I'll say one thing as a positive; at least it's doing something different, which is nice. I just don't like the different that it's doing.

appeal to people sharing a computer with grandparents or children

it's near perfect for them. fewer options, less things to mess up, and the big fat buttons for the few things they might want to run (and everything else tucked out of the way).