if you don't like budgie's subtle task icons showing everything that is open, even multiples, in realtime, with captions, with no commands necessary...
...then I will make a holiday deal with myself that one of the nuanced members here have a single keystroke to make Budgie look like Gnome. An extra lager for me if it's a conky or gnome-tweaks command/file re-write. I have no doubt. The brain collective here is incredible.
It took me 30 minutes after installing Gnome to rip out the dock and thumbnail page and make it look exactly like budgie🙂. I feel your reverse pain...