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Kinda rich dissing KDE for its "unstability" and putting GNOME as its paradigm, the very DE well known to break every major version.
Sometimes this kind of posts/"content" make me feel like I must be the only person in the world who hasn't had major issues with KDE and it's been absolutely flawless lately, specially since 5 - but I then realize people without issues don't complain. It's the people who have issues with something that make the noise and make it a very big deal (and I'd argue most cases are of the PEBCAK type).
If the need is for something simple and stable I'd shoot for something like Xfce - but putting GNOME as the example of "stability" is nothing but laughable.
Gnome has been rock solid for me and I've only had a handful of issues in over 5 years on Fedora.
Gnome focuses on reliability while KDE focuses on innovation
Reliability? Gnome maybe stable... per version! New resease? New breaking change! Screws all your extension and themes, and removes certain features because its "a decade old" or something.
I'll keep saying it again and again: Gnome only "breaks" your extensions if you install them from a different source than your Gnome version (I.e. from the website). Install them from your distro's repo and you have no issues.
Same as all other software: let your package manager handle it.