This was what I wanted as well. I always preferred KDE over Gnome but Ubuntu made it work so well I stayed with it until they abandoned it. And this is my gue

This was what I wanted as well. I always preferred KDE over Gnome but Ubuntu made it work so well I stayed with it until they abandoned it. And this is my guess at Canonicals biggest misstep: taking away something that worked amazingly well and replace it with something that was a.) Buggy when it was introduced b.) Very different from the thing we were in love with.