In the spirit of encouraging wider adoption of KDE, I think a double-down on security aspects would serve KDE well. Plasma’s greatest strength is also something that adds complexity here- for instance, kwin scripts are very powerful but can be used in very bad ways. Additionally, things like sandboxing for thumbnail previews (which are low hanging fruit for vulnerabilities) was mentioned here but nothing seems to have came of it (at least publicly): https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/lwnnka/state_of_plasma_sandboxing_and_other_security/?utm_source=chatgpt.com GNOME, love it or hate it, is sandboxing such things and of course lacks anything like kwin scripts. Perhaps just allowing easy control of that feature (on/off) via lockable GUI for users? COSMIC has a leg up on everything being a grounds-up effort.
Are there any focused discussions to hardening Plasma in the near future?