The following rant isn't meant for the 'power user situation' where the user is willing to do extensive configuration and research to get the perfect environment; it's referring to complete products that claim to work 'out of the box' as whole workstation environments, like KDE neon, GNOME OS, or Linux Mint.
KDE developers and GNOME developers both make apps that target only one specific platform: their desktop environments. But neither desktop environment is a complete and usable product without including some alien, user-facing software that wasn't written by them, and looks and acts completely different from the desktop environment.
This can even mean that a full KDE system isn't really complete without some really good GNOME-focused apps, and vice-versa.
What the fuck gives? No wonder not many people use Linux, even Mint does a better job at being a semi-complete product out of the box.
This is why Debian and Ubuntu are freakish distributions of the two major desktops, with lots of shit tacked on to make them even slightly usable as a workstation.
What the fuck.