on specific consumer products people tended to look forward and probably still do. On major framework, user interface or OS changes which KDE falls into I think

on specific consumer products people tended to look forward and probably still do. On major framework, user interface or OS changes which KDE falls into I think people always have always been at best ambivalent about. The reason is pretty straight forward. If you break something at that level you tend to break almost everything, and people have spent a lot of time building stuff on top. Shaking that in a big way is always risky. People tend to be more conservative the more you go towards the bottom of the stack.