Apparently so, but I'm happy to say it's never given me a reason to care.

And it look until like 5.14/5.15/5.16 for Plasma 5 to finally be stable enough IMO.

The memes of Plasma being unstable and buggy were very real.

Comparing the first Plasma 5 release to 5.27 would be night and day, it went from being straight up unusable trash to a competent, powerful, mostly stable experience. Such a massive improvement.

I'm glad they've postponed Plasma 6 again so they can get things right. Plasma being buggy for so long is what caused Gnome to supplant them in the first place, they're right to try to shake that image.

Gnome provides a more consistent user experience because Gnome apps usually have fewer features and don't offer many customization options by default. KDE apps usually have a lot of settings and customization options, but the user interface might be a little less intuitive or you may have to search in a settings menu to find what you're looking for.

In my experience Gnome is pretty, intuitive, and well integrated, but I tend to settle on KDE Plasma because KDE apps often have more advanced functionality and more options for configuration. If you're the type who likes to explore device/app settings to configure things exactly how you want, then consider KDE Plasma. If you'd rather have a minimal but consistent experience out-of-the-box without any tinkering then Gnome is probably the better choice for you.

Honestly for me it’s very subjective. With GNOME, I need to install and configure a lot of extensions to get it to work the way I like. I was surprised how many of these small tweaks and features are already part of KDE. Out of the box it’s a lot closer to what I want and the rest of the small customizations I want are just right there in KDE as options.

With GNOME extensions I always have to wonder “which crappy extension broke now, and what is the new one everyone is moving to/how to fix it”.

Just generally a lot less headache for me. I also could swear it’s more performant and generally feels snappier, but it’s so hard to tell on modern fast hardware anyway.

GNOME = iOS where they make decisions for you
KDE = Android where it's completely customizable

Based on my (limited) experience, Gnome is especially well suited for people new to Linux or inundated with too much to worry about customizing a DE.

Personally, my desktop runs KDE and I've spent hours researching/customizing it, while my laptop which is a glorified web browser, runs GNOME

Weird. Nvidia? I’ve never had a crash either

or not coming back out of sleep

That's highly likely a hardware issue. And if you have a hardware issue then I wonder about your crashes.

That's really odd. I have been using it for like 3 years so far and I haven't had many problems like those, and when I did they were intel/amd gpu driver bugs/crashes or kdenlive as I mentioned before.