I'm in the same camp. This article does an extremely detailed job of explaining the problems that people who've used a Windows or Mac desktop environment in the past have with the gnome UI.
The menus are the worst thing. We don't need hamburger menus on a desktop window, but gnome apps often have two of them, inconsistently, plus an "open" button.
What do you do if Codex goes off and does something using the wrong approach? You've wasted 30 minutes instead of the 5 that you'd use with Claude Code to start iterating.
I sometimes think of being a massage artist. It's relaxing and satisfying to massage people and feel the kinks and knots loosening. However I don't have the verbal skills to smalltalk. And I don't like dealing with people either.
The menus are the worst thing. We don't need hamburger menus on a desktop window, but gnome apps often have two of them, inconsistently, plus an "open" button.