It's not my fault that the straw man is a fallacy, ya know.
\r\n\r\nSo here's a serious response to his caricature: some people want to get out their tools and special-order stuff from the auto-parts store and spent months or years customizing every detail of their cars. Other people just want to get in their cars and drive.
\r\n\r\nThe former group should be using, at the very least, KDE, though I'd really recommend Enlightenment; they are exactly its target audience. The latter group are the people GNOME is developing for.