I came to understand the philosophy and the kind of user, and specially workflow, most desktop environments try to appeal
however, I don’t fully understand Budgie, have you used it? what can you tell me about it?
I do know, that the open nature of GNU/Linux makes not everything having to “fill a gap”, there can be more than one project with similar goals and that’s okay I just want to know it better
I used budgie quite some time ago, probably 8 years ago or so. I had an older, low power laptop at the time and budgie worked well on it. It was gnome-adjacent, and I like gnome, so I used it until the lappy died.
Hope that helps.