Cinnamon,Its updated freq,customizable,etc
The keyword is in your question āuseā (ā¦to āuseā onā¦).
I work mostly in web design and to do that, I also need image creation and audio. My DE of choice is Gnome.
As you all know, AI-generated images are the latest craze but what many people donāt mention is that 95% of the generated images are trash which means, that constant deleting and renaming is a time-consuming job.
The way Gnome letās me rename images is a DREAM! 
Just select a bunch of images, right click > rename and I can specify exactly what I want. No other DE I know of gives me as much tweaking power as Gnome.
My setup consists of four computers of which two run Linux and the other two, thanks to Chris Titus, W11. I use SFTP to share files between the computers. Gnome lets me, when done, close the connection.
There are several more interesting advantages that Gnome offers BUT, not all is rosy. Programming is quite nice on CachyOSās KDE implementation of Kate but I donāt seem to be capable of adding KDE to my muscle memory. I run KDE for a while and after reverting back to Gnome, it took me weeks to NOT go to the start button to shut down the system.
Gnome, thanks to Gnome Disks, Dash to Panel (extension) and ease of use gets my vote here, although, I am in the minority. For the record, I consider CachyOsās implementation of Gnome the best there is in Linux land, second to none. 
Iāve mentioned this in a different post, but my WM of choice is i3.
Itās very easy for beginners to WMās to get into with a beginner-friendly syntax, works with a good majority of popular bars (I use Polybar in my config), has plugins that can make it better than the defaults, and is an overall joyous X11-based WM for my needs.
The only issue is that it is a manual tiler, but I can live with that, as I have a basic config in my Codeberg repo, which isnāt too bad all things considered (my opinion, of course).
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While I agree gnome is a great DE (and usually my default recommendation if someone doesnāt want to use a WM), the ārenameā feature you mention is just a feature of their Nautilus File Manager, which can be installed on any Desktop Environment or Window Manager
Thunar also has this feature natively, other File Managers that donāt support Bulk Renaming by default can enable it via plugins/extensions
But yes, the ability to Bulk Rename files is one of the biggest time savers linux has exposed me to, itās a godsend!
(Just thought Iād mention this for others who arenāt a big fan of Gnome but want to utilize this feature 
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Nemo also supports bulk renaming which is a fork of Gnomes file manager.