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It’s a petty stupid thing for me to get hung up on - but I just find the icons and theming in KDE to be so, so ugly and dated. It stops me from ever really digging in to give it the try it almost certainly deserves.
Icons are the most easily changed part of the whole thing
https://store.kde.org/browse?cat=132&ord=latest
No offense, but that's a really stupid reason not to try it out.
Self acknowledged in the first four words of my post. But in my defense I don’t have to do anything to make a whole host of other distro not fugly and ancient looking, and I’ve got more important things to do these days than spend much time at all tweaking aesthetics in my desktop.
Kde is not a distro....
I get wanting a distro to look modern and cool by default. One that I like a lot that uses a modified KDE is Nitrux https://nxos.org