The point is they want this to be a distro OEMs put on computers. A normal person has never heard of kate. And if its a firm that buys theses laptops they will have to edit the image anyway but that begs the question on if its in the budget to maintain that. It’s not.
I’m in the same boat I build or depending on the case buy systems and install a version of linux that fits the user. Mind you they are users with light and heavy disabilities. I don’t want more work to make something work for them. I already fly all over for this. And its not one disrto fits all everyone is different. So them going with the worse product is just another reason they have been making sub par choices with the OS. OEM’s and companies will be watching and will likely move to someone that pkgs things right, but that hurts kde overall.
First impressions are impotent if your product cant live up to the basics of what one expects they will move on or move back to what they had. And in the processes tell people not to use it.
To this day people keep thinking kde is like kde4 when it launched way to early and is a buggy mess. When that’s not true but the image is still there.
Cosmic fell into this to due to doing it as a mainly open alpha people still call it buggy and its far better then the early alphas.
First impressions always matter.