Honestly, I have not. That might be because I haven't clicked on that notifications button since I bought the thing. I'd be way more worried about a smartphone.
Most of those require some configuration out of the box and target power-users who are comfortable with manually editing text-based config files (or editing header files and then recompiling from source if you're one of those people). One of Gnomes big selling points is accessibility, which none of the tiling WMs offer in any significant way.
The certbot authors tried really hard at one point to make snap the only available distribution mechanism for their application and for some time the version that Fedora packaged would display some weird deprecation warning and urge you to use the snap version.
You're full of shit. Also, an increasing number of games I play perform better under Linux+Proton than Windows.