So KDE which lets you do what you want out of the box (vertical taskbar) with one setting change is not good for vertical taskbars but GNOME that doesn't have t

So KDE which lets you do what you want out of the box (vertical taskbar) with one setting change is not good for vertical taskbars but GNOME that doesn't have that baked in at all and requires a 3rd party extension to that is a better choice? Oh and you'll still have the horizontal activity bar on GNOME too.