Using KDE has made me realize how distracting feature creep can be and has made me infinitely grateful for GNOME’s hostility to shipping unfinished or band-aid fixes (though it does have its drawbacks).

KDE will always have more mass appeal just because of current computing culture (and that’s a good thing, we need someone to take the fall for Windows and Mac refugees) but imo GNOME’s design fundamentals is so rock solid and nice to use.