The removal of an always visible list of active windows in Gnome3 is the most useless decision ever. Now I have an emtpy black bar above the screen, and can not see which windows are in background there anymore. How is this vast waste of screensize supposed to better than a normal windowlist?

Yes I am aware of the plugin, but it's a second bar then while the first is still uselessly empty. Also it's so crippling ugly that you can't just use it without some extensive manual css adjustments.

Why I just don't use one of those plenty beautiful other Linux desktops, you ask? It's because I hate myself so much.