I cannot explain how much I do not want to see this green dot and “New!” text in my application launcher. Rather than be a passionate contributor like you, I have regrettably become a slave to the Big Tech industry - But one thing I can provide is insight into why operating systems like iOS and Windows have this noise: Impact driven development People need to justify their work on a continuous basis, with the upside of promotions and downside of layoffs. They add the most useless feature...
It’s open source, you can remove it yourself BTW
“Go edit the source” is starting to look like the new “let them eat cake”.
How quickly you trivialize the work of the experienced kde devs that some pedestrian can wander in and mod a large project without fear.