Let's put things into perspective, it's a biyearly notification that sustains the entire gnome ecosystem, I'll remind you that the GNOME foundation pays for the hosting costs, the paperwork and sometimes even development for the GNOME project that includes dozens of apps, libraries and GTK.

This is just the first implementation that will get ironed out in the next few years, like making sure it doesn't pop up in full screen windows and if you read through the issue there will also be an opt out in the settings.