ROFL - I know.
I'm not one of the 'there can be only one' distro/desktop/office suite/webserver/whatever crowd.
What you (and the Gnomes, apparently) don't get is that having the option to configure something doesn't meant it will be used by the rank-and-file. The idea that nailing settings down is even desireable is blown out of the water by the swift appearance of configuration utilities like tweakui. Hell, look at Windows. Windows tweakui is one of the most popular utilities, and the ability to do more than change themes and wallpaper.
No, I see it as both wanting to dictate the 'user experience' and having an excuse not to flesh out the configuration system.
As for your assertion that KDE is for geeks that spend months tricking out their desktops, understand this - it is extremeley rare that I change desktop settings. My distro came with sane defaults, I neither had any kind of major initial configuration dance, nor do I spend the exorbitant amount of time searching for options that anti-KDE gnomes seem to assert happens. It's a bogus set of arguments, used to reassure that Gnome is on the right track. Having the ability to configure does NOT force anyone to use it.
It's not, IMO.
As for the rest, well, the major reason I don't use it is that it's slow, bloated, and doesn't work right. It's not worth my time, yet. I'll continue to experiment as new releases appear, but my expectations have been dropping, not rising. This is not a good thing.
