As someone who isn’t involved with KDE development or openSUSE KDE packaging, KDE seems extremely unpolished to me. There’s just so much old and half-baked crap that the entire project is suffering from. Someone really needs to take out the trash, even if it means sacrificing functionality. To me, it seems like the KDE project lacks direction. It’s like everybody’s just hacking on their own toy projects until they get bored with it, and nobody wants to be responsible for anything. There have been fundraising campains in the past, but it’s never been about fixing the architectural mess (some say it has “grown organically,”and to me it looks more like terminal cancer). This needs to be dealt with, or it’s going to be hard to take this project seriously enough to make it a default choice for anything. That said, I still run a KDE session, albeit with i3 as its window manager (and sway once Wayland on desktop actually works). Dolphin, KMail, KWrite etc. are still great applications that I don’t want to miss. I still want to recommend KDE, but it’s getting harder and harder for me to do so.