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Ah gotcha that makes sense thanks!
That being said I can imagine if KDE didn't have Kate or Konsole or any of that - there's plenty of text editors and Terminals that already exist out there.
GNOME users wouldn't be happy having to install KDE dependencies to use a KDE text editor which doesn't have a consistent look and feel on their desktop. Same applies for KDE users.
To this day I don't understand why we need so many terminal applications