I'm not sure if you're joking or not.
I started computing over 30 years ago. For a long time I was a Windows user, on the upgrade treadmill and I found it fun, but these days it's Emacs, LaTeX, Octave, and bash shell scripting. One of the great things about these tools, for me, is that they are all about the getting the task done and the interface is *not* changing all the time. Of course some things change over time. But for writing I am pretty much working the way I did 10 years ago (emacs/latex). I'm a fan of changes where I'm lured to do something new (learning R for example, which I'm now doing), rather than being coerced into it.
As I said, I haven't used Gnome 3, so I don't have an opinion. And yes, I know that I can always use KDE or fluxbox or whatever. But I repeat: I see no reason to force UI changes on users.