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Evince:
The gitlab repo for Evince was created May 22, 2018 and looks to be last updated yesterday.
Papers:
The gitlab repo for Papers was created March 29, 2022 and looks to be last updated 3 months ago.
I think in my years of using Gnome I've never used either, and had to search apps to see if I even had them installed. I have Evince under the fantastic title "document viewer" which is fixed in that commit yesterday. As for Papers, I don't even have it installed on 49-alpha.
Evince is much older than 2018. I remember using it on Ubuntu 10.04. Iirc, like KDE, Gnome moved its repositories to Gitlab back in 2018.
I had no doubt that it was, I guess my post was more that they have both been around for a bit doing close to the same task. So for the people pretending this is "Gnome abandoning things like they always do" I think it's kind of silly to not expect a "default" app that is more than 7+ years old to be replaced with something newer.
Especially because these are the "default" apps that I would expect to be replaced once someone learns the DE and outgrows the defaults.