Variety does not autostart with Gnome DE since 0.8.7 update, possibly due to sleep 20?

[mendhak]

Version of Variety
0.8.7

Describe the bug
(Ubuntu 20.04) For me it has stopped launching with the DE, since the latest update (0.8.7), it would appear fine before that.
Running variety directly from terminal or launching the application works just fine.
It just doesn't autostart after I login.

Context

I removed the ~/.config/variety folder and went through the startup wizard again.
I also removed the existing ~/.config/autostart/variety.desktop.
I went through the startup wizard, the autostart entry gets created again.
"Start Variety when the computer starts" is checked. (I've tried unchecking and re-checking it.)
But after reboot and login, nothing appears, and Variety doesn't start.

I played around with the variety.desktop Exec command. I noticed if I add logging to it, nothing appears. It's like the command isn't being run at all.

Exec=sleep 20 && /usr/bin/variety --profile /home/mendhak/.config/variety/ 2>&1 | tee /home/mendhak/varietylog.txt

But the moment I put /bin/bash -c "..." around it, it starts working.

Exec=/bin/bash -c "sleep 20 && /usr/bin/variety --profile /home/mendhak/.config/variety/"

Could the problem be the multiple commands?

Attach Variety's log file
No log file since it doesn't start.

Desktop environment and version
Gnome

OS name and version
Ubuntu

Additional context

Looks like the 20second delay was added in this commit: a84d323 and would probably be better wrapped in /bin/bash -c

https://askubuntu.com/questions/28685/how-can-i-delay-a-specific-program-on-startup