You seem pretty out of date on your opinion. gedit is not in GNOME anymore. GNOME Weather is definitely consistent with the test of the desktop since people did a lot of porting in 42 and 43 to implement designs. GNote is not even a core GNOME application. GNOME Contacts is probably under maintained, but I'm sure if you see design issues, you would bring them up on the issue tracker instead of rambling in a HN comment.