This "KDE" analysis is highly questionable. First of all, KDE is not a desktop environment but a community. The desktop environment produced by KDE is called Plasma. The KDE Software that is mentioned (including KDE Connect) is completely independent from Plasma. In fact, lots of KDE Applications also run on Windows, macOS or Android. Also the claim that the KDE codebase is old and thus hard to maintain is questionable. It's true that some of the code dates back to the early days of KDE 20 years ago, but with very few exceptions maintainability is not a problem. Many parts of the software are very much younger even. GNOME is not much younger than KDE, but here there is no such claim at all. Furthermore, claiming that Plasma is particularly "heavy" is not true at all. In fact it's much more performant than GNOME shell and on par with the other mentioned desktop environments (well, except for i3, which is not really a desktop environment)
Originally, KDE was an acronym for K Desktop Environment, but I guess that's gone the way of Kentucky Fried Chicken and International House of Pancakes.
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This "KDE" analysis is highly questionable. First of all, KDE is not a desktop environment but a community. The desktop environment produced by KDE is called Plasma. The KDE Software that is mentioned (including KDE Connect) is completely independent from Plasma. In fact, lots of KDE Applications also run on Windows, macOS or Android. Also the claim that the KDE codebase is old and thus hard to maintain is questionable. It's true that some of the code dates back to the early days of KDE 20 years ago, but with very few exceptions maintainability is not a problem. Many parts of the software are very much younger even. GNOME is not much younger than KDE, but here there is no such claim at all. Furthermore, claiming that Plasma is particularly "heavy" is not true at all. In fact it's much more performant than GNOME shell and on par with the other mentioned desktop environments (well, except for i3, which is not really a desktop environment)
Originally, KDE was an acronym for K Desktop Environment, but I guess that's gone the way of Kentucky Fried Chicken and International House of Pancakes.