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You seem to have a really balanced point of view and that's good. I wanted to like KDE but on the other hand it reads as windows 2000 to my eyes and it bothers me. I did like some things about the interface but overall it felt too busy for me. I hadn't tried it in years until the recent plasma update and people raving about it and its customizability convinced me to give it another shot. One of the first things I did was try to customize the top bar and task bar to be cleaner. It crashed several times very quickly. That's a really bad first impression. The bugs I experienced immediately were as many as I'd seen in years of GNOME experience.
In a perfect world though, yes, GNOME would be more customizable, particularly the overview mode. I do not like it at all. On the other hand, it's not so bad I wouldn't just live with it if I didn't have other options. I do though. To launch any app not common enough to put on my dock, I use ulauncher. It's not the best but it usually works well as an alfred-style launcher app.
I hated macs until OSX and since then I've hated windows more. Just mentioning because I'm sure someone will read what I've written and think I'm a Mac guy. Which was true for a bit but I've grown to dislike macs a lot as well. Their OS is still better than windows though!
Out of curiosity: why is it you don't like the overview? That's one of my favorite aspects of Gnome, and the first thing I tried to replicate in KDE
Edit: I do customize it a bit with extensions though. For example when I start typing and the search bar is immediately focused. And a few other things, like middle click to close windows
What I dislike about the overview is that it takes over the whole screen and also feels a little sluggish. I like the ulauncher loads really quickly and on top of the current UI, blocking virtually nothing from view. Also I like having a few bells and whistles that ulauncher has, like the ability to type a quick math problem and it functions like a basic calculator.
edit: I just realized that I'm mislabeling the thing I dislike. It's the "show all applications" feature in reality. I use overview a lot just to keep track of what I have open, and I like it, but it serves a different purpose than what I want, which is just a very quick and unobtrusive way to launch an app not on the dock.
Indeed I see how the "take over the whole screen" could be annoying.
It does simple math as well though! As for the sluggishness I don't notice it. You can speed up animations with "Just perfection", but again an extra extension (although this one is very well maintained)
What version of KDE did you try on what distro?
The second to last time last time I tried it, when I had all the trouble with crashing, it was in a vm. I think it was on fedora. It was a pretty current version at the time. Maybe 6 months ago. Then a few days ago I installed it as an alternate DE on the current version of pop os. I had some bizarre scaling issues. Didn't check the version that time. Got frustrated and immediately uninstalled it.