I’ve yet to see anything that compares to kde, and I just don’t understand why so many distros default to gnome!

Red Hat has invested so much in GNOME they will probably never want to hear about changing to KDE Plasma. And Suse will follow Red Hat (which never made sense to me).

SuSE use KDE as the default, them and Manjaro are the only two bigguns that do, really

Not the Suse professional edition that I tested a couple of weeks ago. Only the community editions default to KDE.