It’s called being privately owned

Here’s some ads to cover my costs

Narrator voice: it doesn’t cover their costs, but they have investor money so it’s ok

Give it 2 days and chances are someone has already published a PKGBUILD in the AUR

Yeah, the consensus within the GNOME dev community is that yes, tray icons can be implemented as of right now, but it would lead to very messy systems and most surely lots of technical debt, so the chosen path forward is to wait for a better, unified alternative to arise and then evaluate its implementation in GNOME.