GNOME with Yet Another Controversial Decision

The blogger fails to notice the difference between a music player/manager and an audio player.
The audio player plays audio files, that's it while the music player manages music/allows playlist and whatnot.
And I thought the controversy was that Decible was written in JavaScript/GJS and not that the blogger is an idiot with a blog.
Now, picture a new Linux user deciding to try GNOME for the first time or choosing a distribution that offers a vanilla GNOME experience. One of the first things they’ll likely do is test the multimedia capabilities. They double-click on an audio file, and… well, that’s what I’d call a disappointing introduction to Linux
Actually its not disappointing at all, the audio plays just like the user would expect.
- They want to hate know for the sake of it

Decibel has been there for a few years and in incubator for close a year (?). This sounds like a drama out of nothing. One video I watch and this blog missed that it will not replace Gnome Music either which will still be there (AFAIK).

What's wrong with that? If you think it's bloat, GNOME has tons of that and this is just a minor one. I wouldn't be surprised if Decibels integrated into Nautilus to play audio files directly in the file manager. Probably more beneficial for mobile than desktop though.
- I agree with you, I just wanted to share this for the sake of completion.
  
  I guess the author of the article has reacted too much. The audio player they mentioned is a music player. At this point a simple audio player suits GNOME more after all of those simplifications they made for core applications.
- play audio files directly in the file manager
  Isn't that what gnome-sushi is for?
  
  Close, but sushi is for previews, though technically you can run the whole file as a preview I think.
- The issue is not that it's bloat but that it makes a bad first impression, especially on new users. This is very much "batteries-not-included" software.
  In the old days, before it bitrotted, Rhythmbox could do a lot. You could play an entire album or playlist, search, sort, sync your iPod, you could play and rip CDs -- and it was much quicker than iTunes nonetheless. Alternatively, you could use Totem for music and video and even that could do playlists. Modern Totem has some playlist functionality, but that functionality is so basic, it only works by opening multiple files at once from the file manager. Now Decibels basically does the same thing as modern Totem, except with a waveform background but not better in any other way.
  
  Gnome Music still exists. This isn't a music player, it's an audio player.
  
  While I wouldn't oppose the idea of a pre-installed music player, I believe Rhythmbox was never a core application. I hope they won't make a music player a core app because you cannot uninstall them because of dependencies. Also the first impression is the distro's concern not GNOME's. I support modularism instead of making softwares bundle in a bundle. For example, I should be able to use whatever file manager without worrying about the whole DE bloat. For GNOME, they are in too deep for dependencies, as for KDE.
  I appreciate GNOME's work for simplicity, but I don't appreciate their dependency hell.