What I've been seeing on other tech forums is that the latest KDE version includes a lot of extra 'conveniences' that've been added to the likes of Vista & Windows 7. The phrase 'fixing what ain't broke' keeps popping up a lot...
Yeah. I think they so want to attract Windows users, that they are falling in the same hole, at least that’s my observation with KDE.
They really do need to put out a “beginners” Ubuntu distribution.