I cannot tell you how much I love that the process of
"my Linux distro suddenly booted into Gnome because I didn't realize a package I installed yesterday had all of Gnome as a dependency"
is referred to at
"getting gnomed"

https://www.reddit.com/r/gotgnomed/

@memoriesin8bit I have never been gnomed. A few years ago I almost got gnomed via apt, but I had the good fortune to look at all the additional packages it was going to install and said no. After that I used apt-mark hold gnome-shell.

This is part of why I prefer flatpaks.