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For the 1000th time, those extensions aren't even close to what something really native would offer. They fail in some circumstances like drag and drop to certain plains and behave inconsistently.
GNOME Extensions actually run in the gnome-shell process itself and can do most things that a builtin solution could offer.
That proves why they shouldn't be part of GNOME Shell themselves. Offloading some (debatable) functionality to extensions helps keeping the core components reliable and maintainable.
Side note: there is also a DING implementation with supposedly better DnD support: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/5263/gtk4-desktop-icons-ng-ding/
Yes, until you decide to use GNOME and suddenly everything "endlessly complex" while you wait for pointless UI animations to finish. :P
GNOME is the snappiest DE on low end hardware besides LXQt and XFCE, but go on.
Never had issues with Gnome on low end hardware but, you can disable animations in the accessibility settings. (No extensions needed!)
Not all animations.