Plasma is probably not the best example to illustrate this problem : should everybody be happy with menus, you would probably still have 3 alternatives in Plasm

Plasma is probably not the best example to illustrate this problem : should everybody be happy with menus, you would probably still have 3 alternatives in Plasma, because it's all about offering highly configurable experience. Personally, it's extremely rare that I use the menu. I do everything through Krunner, which is way more integrated and useful that it may look at first glance. You can look for application by their name, of course, but also for application by their description, for file by their name, for windows by their running program or window title, etc. One cool underrated feature : you can try to launch applications you haven't installed yet, and it brings up package manager to install it (on KDE Neon, at least, not sure for other distros).