It still has the same vibes and is the same KDE we love or hate, just better.
It definitely feels way more polished and now has some MacOS vibes to be fair.
Not as minimalist as Gnome, but the insane amount of features got “hidden” a bit user friendlier. I think that if you apply some icon themes and a top bar + dock, it will be indistinguishable from MacOS for many casual users.
Wait I though it was Windows that had a KDEy feel? Anyway it shouldn’t matter whether UI’s have some common features if they’re good, only whether we like one regardless. You enjoy GNOME, great, that’s a very slick desktop too.
Plasma has a lot of things that puts it above Windows in my book.
@ProtonBadger@SubArcticTundra technically windows hasn't had much of it's ui ideas change since 95 (8, 8.1 and 11 were major departures and part of the reason their so disliked).
I would say it's probably more kde copying aspects from windows then sorta going their own path with those ideas.
Visual style that was started with breeze and 10 is debatable, graphic design wise 10 was just a simplified 8 reflecting design trends of the time while Breeze was a massive departure from sqeumorphicism