as I understand it, GTK themes were always sort of a hack (?) but from a user perspective they always worked well. all the complaints I've heard about themes seem to follow a pattern of "well, it makes it hard to do x" without any questioning of whether it made sense to do x in the first place.
icon packs have wildly different ideas for their icons! our icon buttons in our GtkHeaderBars might not make sense!
I could rant about my issues with headerbars, but basically, GtkMenuBar doesn't have this problem and I don't see a good reason to move away from it.
users' themes will cause our custom styling to break!
who thought it was a good idea to allow GTK programs to override colours in the first place? what benefit does this give? I've yet to see a good example.
I always thought Adwaita was just a bit of a weird theme and headerbars a bit of a weird idea until I used a friend's recent Mac laptop and realised that Gnome is just trying to rip off MacOS. now it all makes sense and it's frankly pretty embarrassing. how about we just build something better than Mac or Windows instead of just copying?
