Definitely true (and I do install Konsole on GNOME if I have to use GNOME) but probably not super common. Most people, myself included, are gonna install the D

Definitely true (and I do install Konsole on GNOME if I have to use GNOME) but probably not super common. Most people, myself included, are gonna install the DE and its apps by choosing it in the OS installer (or at least with a single command, a la "pacman -S plasma-meta kde-applications-meta sddm").