More the opposite; switching to being copied by Windows 12. Seriously.
KDE: let's make our panel floating by default to distinguish ourselves visually from Windows!
later
Microsoft rumored to introduce floating panel in Windows 12.
Windows was copying KDE already with Vista/7.
I'm happy with them taking the best from Windows 11 so long as they don't destroy KDE with distracting ads in the UI like Windows 11 does.
this comment is ... just wrong; why are you so edgy?