Try to recall the OP’s carefully worded request. That whole paragraph is disparagement, not a benefit of KDE, the same goes for the closing KDE remark, and whether true or not is irrelevant to the original request i.e. avoid desktop war. 
Today I installed using the netinst iso and noticed that at DE selection time there is a message that says both DEs are the most widely used and both are equally supported under OpenSUSE.
Sadly, I’m going back to Debian (for now) , because some applications I need depend on GCC, and it seems they have some incompatibilities right now with the current 5.2.1 version. For example, Vmware and Scrapy.
You do have to install gcc it is not installed by default but there should be no problem with vmware. Scrappy I don’t know
Yes I installed it. Just reading Arch wiki, it seems the problem is the kernel. Currently we got 4.2.4, but Vmware work up to 4.2.
Now testing on a VM, I managed to install Scrapy by previously removing python3 and all its libs. It’s odd because using pip2 it didn’t work, but removing python3 libs it does work. Also, the error was about GCC but it seems Python 3 libs affect somehow.
This is completely off topic.
When you want help with this/these problems, please start new threads for each of them in the best fitting forums with a good titles. Thatt is the way to draw the attention of the people youu need help from.
indeed it’s offtopic, but guess what? I do not even need help with that, I just answered to gogalthorp’s comment