If you'll indulge me an anecdote, my first KDE experience was noticing the icons were too small, setting fractional scaling, and watching the entire desktop bug

If you'll indulge me an anecdote, my first KDE experience was noticing the icons were too small, setting fractional scaling, and watching the entire desktop bug out requiring several restarts. I immediately switched to GNOME, noticed fractional scaling wasn't an option (by default), and just left the small icons alone - which I've now gotten used to. I think that's a good allegory for the philosophy behind an opinionated desktop.