>How well do you think KDE is in regards to Gnome regarding it's future?
As mentioned I haven't invested enough time into testing other DEs yet.
>I see GTK 4 was just released, will this help anything in Gnome 4?
I doubt it. The problem is not purely technical, the problem is the project's leadership, direction which it pursues, and relationship with the wider Linux community.
I have said this before but there is a chicken-and-egg problem here. Alternative DEs don't get a lot of corporate support so as a result they don't contribute much upstream. When they don't contribute much upstream they fall further behind and the relationship with upstream deteriorates because nobody is there to advocate for downstream.
I don't know what the solution here is but complaining at leadership to shift in an unspecified direction is probably not it.
As mentioned I haven't invested enough time into testing other DEs yet.
>I see GTK 4 was just released, will this help anything in Gnome 4?
I doubt it. The problem is not purely technical, the problem is the project's leadership, direction which it pursues, and relationship with the wider Linux community.