Ah okay. I don't get to choose anyways, because I don't currently use KDE on my main desktop. But I'm one of the people who reverts all those settings first thing after install. It's just that it sometimes gets annoying once I need 20 minutes to configure my desktop environment and answer many questions about privacy telemetry and so on. And disable all the background stuff like updates on shutdown, the desktop search and whatever gets in the way all the times. At this point I could just use windows if that's what I like or use those 20mins to learn to configure some tiling window manager.

I was kind of okay the way it was in the olden days. You just got what the developers liked most. No telemetry involved. Often times that was quite alright. Some times they followed some design philosophy anyways (or just 'ripped off' the MacOS UX). But that also had downsides. And I get it that some people need their computers to do a specific job. And they don't want to learn lots of new concepts just to use their tool. Maybe a bit like when I sit in front of an Apple keyboard and can't find half of the keys. Maybe we shouldn't listen to what I like. Maybe we should have an onboarding dialogue that plainly asks you if you prefer UX concept A or B. I don't really know. But not for just this one thing.

You're 100% right with the last argument. If most of the distros or all of your users configure something a certain way. This should tell you something.

I just wanted to say, I like diversity. Not every UX has to look and feel exactly the same. And we don't always need to go for the lowest common denominator.