I don’t buy this at all. The door-in-the-face strategy doesn’t really work if it leaves the customer feeling like they’d rather get rid of the door and start over with a new door technology.

You can squeeze your customers in a way that doesn’t make you look insane and Unity chose to not do that.

b00merang have almost every single mainstream operating system as a downloable GTK/Cinnamon/MATE/Gnome theme.