I’ve seen and resolved many issues on gnome, but never tried KDE.
Is it worth it over GNOME, beyond preference, that is? If yes, why?
Also, is it more performant, tweakable, does it offer more funcitonality?
At first, I felt at home quicker with Gnome when I tried Gnome VS KDE. I even hated KDE. I tried it for 30 minutes and I was done, it was not for me. So I went with Gnome. I disliked the OOTB look and feel of Gnome, but it was easy/simple to use and I had found some “great” extension that allowed me to make Gnome look and feel exactly as I like it! It was awesome! An then I noticed that all those extensions was heavy on resources. And then update came in and everything was messed up. It was good for a little while, but I was left disappointed in the end.
I decided to give KDE a try. Again, it was not for me, but I continued to use it anyway. I liked the performances and the look and fell OOTB, but I was unable to understand and find the settings and config easily. Configuring KDE as I like it was a real PITA. Settings are all over the place and the “System Settings” panel was not to my taste. With time, everything came to make sense and now I understand that it was me that did not understood KDE the way it is meant to be. I now consider myself to be in sync with KDE, I get it now. It look the way I want, it behave the way I want and perform the way I want and all of this without extensions.
I also find KDE more suited for gaming. To me it’s a no-brainer if you play games. I find KDE to be better and better with time. I have no complaint on the stability side (I had some issues when they shipped KDE6, but it was a major version, so I forgive it and it was nothing too bad)
I hope it help you find the answer you seek in your heart! 
Sure. Though it’s mostly due to gnome always giving different types of issues in different contexts.
Gnome is nice besides it’s overview panel and lack of customizability of it. Sometimes relying on unstable extensions, even though they would be the more decent available for that type of whatever that is.
Other than that, stability.
I wanted some perspective on that from KDE. One thing I saw on KDE, is that it seems to be like Windows, and that put me off in using it, before.
But there are probably ways to customize that.
It’s undeniable that at first glance KDE and Windows share some similarities in it’s look and layout, but I would say that it’s the most the have in common. Windows spy on you all the time, KDE don’t (at least you have a setting to control this and it stay off forever. No update won’t ever put it back on). Windows have Ads everywhere, KDE don’t. Windows will revert most of your settings when update occur while KDE won’t. No forced update.
Basically, the workflow is similar, but that’s about it. The workflow / layout of Windows is almost the only thing I’ve ever liked about Windows, so to me this similarity between the two is welcome.
That was not a problem, because it is resolvable, be the spying, ads or updates reverting settings. Though I no longer use windows.
Only thing I noticed that Windows so far has, other than much more support on the GPU side, is the stability and consistency in comparison to Linux. At least it gives that feel, regardless of what you do in both.
Linux always gives the clunky feeling. At least in the UI / DE experience.
KDE was running smoothly for months until Plasma 6. 5.27 was really perfect. I learned hyprland and embraced tiling window managers. It’s hard to return to the gnome KDE syndrome frankly. (Budgie is okay though.) Consider playing around with tiling window managers. It’s kinda fun. The windoze approach to computing is so 1995.
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Just my personal opinion, but KDE is way more “fast moving” than gnome. So KDE will implement new features faster and gnome will try to “perfect” it (sometimes too much).
On my personal usage I have noticed kde having more bugs, but its mostly because they implement then newest stuff and fix occuring bugs later. This also creates a bigger burden for the devs as bugs keep piling on.
I personally prefer gnome for tis UI and use but I have no issues to use KDE either. But I am now in the tiling window manager hellhole and loving it 
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i dont think its more stable then gnome it might sometimes crash (mostly solved) but its not bad in any way
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Gnome is great for work focusing. I’m using gnome+fedora for daily driver.
You never have to open a menu when your are working. Switching between windows is very straightforward. Multi desktop is great. Multi monitor is great. It’s more MacOS-ish.
KDE is a more versatile environment with a Windows-ish touch and a great collection of applications (there is a taskbar… Sorry but hate it lol).
Gnome is a Japanese katana and KDE is a Swiss knife.
What’s better depends on you.
Gnome can be heavy sometimes.
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I’m a dual graphics user, and if I disable the core graphics and just use the nvidia graphics, the kde desktop under wayland has performance degradation problems. But on gnome desktop, there is no such problem. In my own experience, gnome is better and more stable than kde. I take responsibility for my own words, because similar things have happened with different distributions.
In terms of desktop design and layout, gnome’s is indeed very different from the windows style desktop.I personally think that gnome desktop ui is more modern, with bright colors and modern icons. I’m a young adult and prefer the gnome design. kde desktop is a bit more retro.
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Nice perspectives so far. I might stay with gnome and fix any issues left.
I had the (almost) same experience as @iSpeakVeryWell .
I read somewhere about how the GNOME developers were not-so-nice when it came to responding to user issues or something like that (it was a while ago and my memory fails, I believe the words were rude and condescending referring to the devs).
So I switched to KDE and haven’t looked back.
Yeah I sense that too.
I think they are extremely protective with their baby.
They often broke things they do not like (vertical desktop ie). Plugins often break when gnome core is updated.
But the result is good, near perfect.
Just found an extension that lets you do a lot of customizations on the overview part, something I had not seen before.
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/5177/vertical-workspaces/
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Thx, nowadays I just use horizontal desktop.
It’s less confusing and require less shortcuts to learn.
But I will try it 
I hope it’s compatible with the cube extension