This used to bother me way more than it does now.
The Knaming scheme was so Koff putting that I refused to use KDE for years based purely on how much it annoyed me.
But it's been 15 years now and GNOME has turned into Fisher Price. KDE things always seemed to work better, like Phonon works 1000 times better than GStreamer and apps like Krita and Kdenlive are far more useful than GNOME equivalents.
Thinking about giving KDE a spin with the new Plasma 6 release
If you wanted to truly punish them, install Debian Stable