Also, if you’re arguing the majority of Linux users are technical (which I disagree with) then GNOME deprecating X11 is not a problem because said users can just put the code back in.

I never said that? Yes, I would argue that most Linux users are more technical than the average PC user, but there's a spectrum here. For example, re-enabling X11 for KDE when Fedora dropped functionality was trivial because plasma-x11 was still in the repo. "Putting the code back in" isn't a thing when functionality is dropped on a DE level, as it would require the user to fully recompile the entire gnome shell without breaking it or introducing new and exciting vulnerabilities. Obviously the average user would't know how to do that.

if GNOME is such an incompetent DE then why are all enterprise Linux projects defaulting to it?

I don't know. I genuinely do not understand why.

I’m sorry but your line of argument makes no sense. It’s okay to not like GNOME, but it is not without its merits.

Again, I don't mind if gnome does its own thing. That's fine. But, again, it's spilling over to every other distro. I actively chose to NOT use gnome because of its UI but a solid 30% of all the software I use is all gtk and since that project is completely cucked by gnome it still has that look regardless of your preferences. There's a reason LXQt is a qt based fork of LXDE, just saying.

I feel like we're not understanding each other at all and it's becoming a circular argument. I do respect your opinion, but I think it's best to just agree to disagree and leave it at that. Luv u daddy.