Gnome is nothing like Windows. I honestly can't think of a DE further away from how windows works than Gnome lol. It's KDE and Cinnamon that copied the tried and tested Windows UX paradigm, perhaps you have your DEs muddled...
The whole ethos of Gnome is throwing out the Windows workflow and going with a completely reimagined one completely unshackled from traditional UX.
Is this just one of those gnome=evilsuperbad comments