I mean if you dont like gnome its fine, but still better than using windows, what's the hold up?

gnome has HDR, idk how well it works or how much gnome distrupts your workflow

diehards really kill the community. I think the guys from suckles are most guilty of this

There's a reason KISS exists, no reason my terminal app should be also drawing my panel, this just seems like unneeded complexity

idk about others, but for me, KDE feels unpolished. Besides breeze, nearly every theme feels or is unfinished. Now, gnome is also pretty finicky to theme, but in the end i had some pretty uniform and fully featured results which I haven't been able to replicate on KDE. Also extensions on gnome are pretty neatly implemented. The only downsite do gnome is how stingy they are with Wayland (No server side decorations and other important features)