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Gnome is extremely stable. Very very very stable. And Gnome isn't well known to break every version, I don't know where you've got that from.
They do expect extension developers to test and mark their extensions as compatible with new Gnome versions, but that's the opposite of unstable, that's enforcing stability, although I do see how it could annoy people who like to immediately move to beta Gnome releases and their extension developers haven't got around to testing/verifying yet.
Personally I'm more in favour of that than the alternatives:
locking down what extensions can do in order to guarantee they work across all versions with zero need for tweaks/testing
assuming each extension will work with a new version, risking breaking stuff if, say, the new Gnome version makes changes to the notification system UI an extension makes alterations to