Why the fuck is gtk3 such a bloat compared to 2?

Redhat is hosting Gnome's web page.

might have to try it. i just need to compile it myself because its not in the distro repos and the precompiled version wont run because this is a musl only system.

normally gnu things are hosted on the gnu domains

Yes, that statement is indeed accurate.

Can you autists keep the gnu internals bickering to one thread?

gnu no longer leads gnome development. Gnome 2 was a gnu project, but 3 isn't

GTK literally contains a JS implementation, so does QT. Modern UI libs are trash.

GNU leads GNU Gnome development as GNU Gnome is a GNU project. GNU dictates the boundaries of what Gnome must not do. There has never been a time where GNU Gnome has stopped being a GNU project.

Short story: it's made by same company that did SystemD.
That should give you a big enough hint.

Nowadays it's more of a redhat and freedesktop project. Technically it was started by GNU, but it's very much independent from them these days.