Ten years ago, an employer gave me a Windows desktop and I did my earnest to make it my work laptop. I think I gave up when I realized the OS didn't allow me to use custom hotkeys and I "needed" a tool for it that will be running, capturing my keystrokes ;).

KDE is fantastic, not as lean as other desktops, but very stable and feels as premium as a MacOS equivalent, but way more customizable. It has the same pitfalls as Gnome, with some kwin scripts, widgets and extensions jeopardizing your stability and becoming memory hungry hippos, but also being harder to spot than their equivalent in Sway or others. But IMO it lacks the issues I faced with Gnome with each upgrade (I miss a stable PaperWM).