I’ve used Plasma for a week or so before rebasing back to Silverblue last year.
I tried to keep it natural and not force an alien workflow into KDE too much, but I couldn’t really go back to the classic paradigm.
It was nice to give Plasma a look as it’s a great DE. But in the end I figured I prefer the gnome workflow, so it makes little sense to use another DE for me.
This really reminds me a lot about what Yanis Varoufakis (former Greek minister of finance) said abouth the EU. It’s been a while, but the gist of it was exactly what you say, that they have depoliticized the political system of the EU. Leaving a technocracy that is completely immune to debate, regardless of who is right or not.