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I feel mixed. The shift towards COSMIC DE got me off of POP_OS. I wanted the newer Gnome features, and that stopped being their focus. I don't wanna wait 2-3 years for a great DE when I already know I like Gnome. I switched to Fedora and use Pop Shell, and am really happy with my OS now. I also felt like the public shade between Gnome devs and S76 devs was tacky. With that said, I bet Cosmic is going to be great eventually. It'll be great to have DE in the ecosystem with a focus on performance, UI, customizability, and actually looking good. Even if I don't use it, I bet it'll push the other big DEs to get better. Friendly competition is good. Also, it's ridiculous that you have to go with a WM to get tiling, and that it's not easier to get in Gnome. Real glad Pop Shell is still available, but I don't think anyone's maintaining it so it can't last.
Howdy, I'm the maintainer of the gnome-shell-extension-pop-shell Fedora package, which is likely how you installed it on Fedora since it's not available from extensions.gnome.org. I'm glad you're finding it useful.
The pop-shell upstream is still being maintained by System76 engineers. Development work has slowed down since they started working on COSMIC DE, but they're still fixing bugs and reviewing/merging contributions. When COSMIC DE was announced I asked them how long they would keep maintaining their GNOME extensions, and they said at least until the end of life of the PopOS versions the extensions are shipped in. So pop-shell has still got some life left in it, even for a few years after COSMIC DE becomes their default in a new release.
Thank you so much for your efforts in packaging it for Fedora, and for the clarity on the status! I deeply appreciate it.