KDE won me over for the simple fact that it's highly configurable, and that configuration is all driven out of one UI tool. Gnome drove me nuts with molding it into the shape I wanted.

My only problem is it seems to be buggy still. I just tried it on Fedora 42, and I configured the panel to my liking. Now I cannot get the panel to auto hide or dodge windows, no matter what I try. sigh