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The Ubuntu GNOME distros blog post tells you everything you need to know:
There will no longer be a separate GNOME flavor of Ubuntu. The development teams from both Ubuntu GNOME and Ubuntu Desktop will be merging resources and focusing on a single combined release... We are currently liaising with the Canonical teams on how this will work out.
Old hands in this field may recall a similar refocusing happened to Red Hat back in 2003. Red Hat dropped its desktop, then called Red Hat Linux, and started up Red Hat Enterprise Linux, in the process becoming the boring enterprise-focused company it is today. But it created the community based Fedora to serve as what Red Hat Linux had once been so not all was lost.
While this is the likely script for Canonical over the next few years, it is equally possible that it may not actually go this way. Canonical may stick with its desktop and still make it a major focus of its development because while the money is in enterprise, what made Ubuntu very nearly a household name is not enterprise, but community.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @12:11AM
i don't like the fact that they made gnome 3 less configurable than gnome 2 either but i think they had the right idea with how they handled workspaces. at least it works pretty well for my workflow. they still do stuff that gets on my nerves and seem to fiddle with stuff that is easy and was fine instead of making harder, needed improvements and they make some decisions for me that i don't appreciate but it doesn't bother me enough to use something else. For me, overall it works and it stays out of the way. i've tried all the major DEs in the past and for computers that can handle the extra weight i use gnome 3. for wimpier computers i use mate or xfce. gnome 3 looks nice enough and i can have a bunch of shit going at once and easily flip between stuff. It doesn't usually cause major issues due to bugs either. it's usually little stuff. i'm pretty sure i'm not a lot like a mac user either since i fiddle with everything else, just not so much the desktop anymore. that's ok because i'm supposed to be developing not jacking with DE themes and shit.