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It does certainly help, just not great.
And yes gnome does, because it is built around an extension ecosystem. You can't multi monitor their default dash, but you certainly can use the dash to panel extension just fine on multiple monitors. Due to extensions, gnome is just way more customizable
but like... kde also has extensions. your complaint isn't about DE's then, it's that your use case is uncommon.
is this a windowsism?
From my experience KDE barely has extensions, it mostly has half baked themes. Gnome extensions are in a whole different league