Sometimes I'm astonished by people's inability to put together coherent thoughts. I think it it comes from a complete lack of self awareness, but I'm unsure. Working theory.
This is some really high quality reading and critical thinking. I appreciate your write up as well as your identification of and attention to nuance.
Not using Debian because gnome seems silly to me. Why not just install plasma if that's what you want?
What the hell are you talking about hahaha