For four decades, I've been copying text by selecting it and then pasting 
by clicking the middle mouse button.

It's one of those features I use to demonstrate to Windows users the superiority (ease-of-use) of Linux desktops. Love it.

It suddenly stopped working, with no announcement that I saw, when I 
updated from Fedora 43 to Fedora 44.

I saw some discussion about this but mostly ignored it because I don't use Gnome.

It was very frustrating.  That this was intentional is quite rude.

I can understand the rationale behind removing it as a default. I'd expect a BIG notification about it though.

New Linux users have been very confused by accidental pastes. In browsers it's common to middle-click as a "gesture", then with no further button presses one can scroll just moving mouse up or down. But middle-click gesture in an input field and... "oops!"

Having to run a CLI or install a tweaks package to re-enable it? Crazy.

It turns out that this is a GNOME "improvement".