What I mean is that the tiling functionality is subpar when added as a second thought. Of course a traditional WM/DM is going to have a lot more bells and whistles.
Oh yeah, 100%. This domain should also follow the unix philosophy of a composition of single purpose utilities. It's why I prefer tiling WMs like i3, Sway, and Hyprland. They do very little other than managing window tiling and key bindings. Everything else is roll-your-own. My config for Hyprland uses a couple dozen different programs to get things setup to my liking, e.g. Waybar for the system bar, rofi for launching programs, wlsunset for nighttime color management, swayidle and swaylock for the idle locking and lock screen, sway notification center for notifications, grim and slurp for screen capture, etc...
I share a lot of my config between Sway and Hyprland because of this modularity. They are flexible enough that you could configure them to look and run just like KDE and no one would be the wiser.
