Conclusion
Plasma 6 is shaping up nicely. It's been a year now since the new major version of the desktop environment has been released, and it's come a long way since the early incarnation. It still looks and behaves like Plasma 5, so you won't get any system shock moving over to it. Plasma also retains its magical power of customization, and you can actually do proper desktop stuff with it. Even things like, gasp, minimize windows or show desktop or save desktop icons, golly. Pretty, elegant, and the bugs are going away, gradually.
All that said, there are still problems and issues, some seemingly unnecessary so. The "noise" of KDE neon sure doesn't help. The KDE team must maintain a distro that is essentially Ubuntu, only 100x buggier, and that just creates overhead. And if one wishes to sample Plasma, they may come away disappointed, and not because there's something wrong with the desktop, but because KDE neon is simply not stable enough. It's like opening a fancy new restaurant in a building with a leaky roof. Even if you enjoy the cuisine a lot, the general ambiance will be a bit meh. Wayland is another drag. Well, there we are. Plasma remains nice, and it's slowly getting better. A bit too slowly, but hey. Anyway, see you around.
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