Now imagine that the thing in the OP has even less finesse than what you call a bunch of Shoggoths. More like putting lipstick on a earthworm.

All those projects, hellosystem, this one, I guess I've seen one or two more before — all of them are just kind of missing the whole point.

I would say the current KDE Plasma is somewhat starting to approach any amount of finesse at all. Hope they continue, at least they've learned from the whole KDE4 kerfuffle.