Adaptive layout is pretty nice at desktop too if you’re tiling windows.

I honestly don’t really see it, I think vanilla GNOME looks amazing, while KDE Plasma just screams Windows 7 to me.

Having said it that, both are great DE’s with vastly different approaches. So these can definitely just co exist, while we can both agree that both DE’s are great for different people and workflows.

If you think four years of technical debt is a lot, wait until you hear about Microsoft Windows.