Word of advice from a KDE user: if you go switch, you'll find yourself writing another article just like this one about KIO.
This is just the nature of FOSS. Those that are smart enough to fix it are also smart enough to find a "good enough" workaround - and that requires far less effort than fixing it.
This is just the nature of FOSS. Those that are smart enough to fix it are also smart enough to find a "good enough" workaround - and that requires far less effort than fixing it.