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GNOME always has looked like a cheap copy of macOS. Until version 3.28 they had the desktop icons and later on they also decided to hide the "dash" under the "activities" menu. I call this "a feature" because it was effectively something that existed and was removed.
Well they don't need, Microsoft itself seems to be more than happy to obliterate the start menu and so on on... Windows 8, now Windows 11... you know that old saying Microsoft does a good version of windows and always makes a very bad one right after.
The think with the desktop as Microsoft and Apple are doing it is that it people are familiar with them, they've years of UI/UX research of development and they're the most effective way of designing a desktop. What GNOME is pushing for here, as you said, is some kind of half hassled DE that takes a few ideas from crippled mobile OSes that ironically have some kind of desktop icons (iOS and Android home screens). Unfortunately for them GNOME has close to zero expression in the mobile market and even if it did the rest of their UI isn't designed to be workable on a touch screen.