GNOME is being obsoleted by KDE.
These days I prefer KDE, and I accept quirky behavior like losing a widget panel from external monitor 1 if you unplug external monitor 2, because I know it will come back after reboot/relogin. In exchange for that, I get different wallpapers for each monitor, custom/extra panels, several alternatives for application menus and taskbars, lots of widgets, and a few small QOL perks I can't remember right now.
If KDE becomes too quirky, I can always go back to Gnome, but right now I'm happy with KDE.
Sure, if you always want each application to be full-screen. Otherwise you can't get anything done.
Gnome these days is the my-way-or-the-highway kind of uncle.
They're actively hostile to user theming, for example, and keep removing features simply because they don't think users need them, like desktop icons.
Their file browser is horrible to use. Their image viewer is anaemic.
They keep finding new ways to dumb their applications down, to make things less "confusing" for the users, I suppose.
They adopted MacOS-style headerbars, but ignored Apple's solution to the lack of functionality that brings ~ their Menu Bar.