This is why I stick to KDE. I like a lot of the aesthetic elements of GNOME, and some of their apps are pretty good, but I dislike the pseudo-macos simplicity that you mention. It's like an attempt to be more like mac, without the good parts of mac.
Not needing to rely on hacked-together and essentially unsupported extensions for core functionality that breaks every other update is a nice plus too.
Besides, the aesthetics and workflow are portable from GNOME to KDE with some configuration (though not the other way around).
They are just in reasonable and intuitive places to begin with. KDE arguably has an obscene amount of customization capabilities, though. I woudln't be surprised.
