Reading up on this, I'd like to revise my statement as there seem to have been many breaking changes in gnome indisputably caused by gnome being careless about updates...
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Agreed. I don't like to use vanilla gnome, and kde doesn't look or feel great. Gnome + Zorin's modifications makes it near perfect! No need to change the DE.
KDE can look whatever you like, sure it require some skills and know-how. You have huge freedom in KDE to bend the Desktop at you will, where Gnome is much more restricted in that area. Both vanilla Gnome and Vanilla KDE needs some tweaking to look good, but I can make anything look good 
Yes Gnome looks better out of the box vanilla wise, but it comes with a cost.
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I would argue that Q4OS Plasma is also a good transition OS from Windows with a dedicated Look Switcher:
and there is also Trinity DE in 64-bit and 32-bit:
There is also PCLOS Debian xfce which is one version I actually like:
I'm going to take a look at the latest Voyager release which states it is Gnome merged with xfce - Perhaps Zorin are looking at this?
Interesting points on Voyager's main page:
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I intensely dislike "vanilla" GNOME.
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I voted for Mate. I have assumed that XFCE won't be here anymore, despite the bad performance comments with gnome in old machines. I've tested Core version in 2 old computers with 4GB of RAM and it runs far worse than XFCE and uses more memory from fresh desktop.
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MATE is what Gnome used to be like (Gnome 2/3). A bit like Trinity is what KDE used to be like before Plasma. Q4OS do both 64-bit and 32-bit versions of Trinity, so really old hardware can be saved from the scrapheap.
With the newest Gnome, we can continue to experience Windows OS on GnuLinux in so many ways. Including... That in Windows, we would randonly get a BSOD, with no helpful errors to try to diagnose it.
With Gnome, it is a WSOD.
Welcome back to Windows.
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its really disappointing to see cinnamon is only at 3% and KDE 24%.
KDE is most bloated & frustrating DE. its like devs couldnt decide what they want, so they add everything everywhere all at once in their DE. Gnome is opposite of that, cinnamon is middle ground and i really love it, i really like zorin gnome but with cinnamon they can do much more without all the bs KDE offers
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I wouldn't call it bloated. The Thing is: You have Settings for everything because You can set up and customize everything. It can feel overwhelming to have such a lot of Options, yes. I can understand it.
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Only looked at KDE Neon briefly and thought it was buggy, so didn't waste too much time with it.
Thought Gnome and Wayland were good, but more impressed with Cinnamon and X11
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KDE Neon is more like a Testing Ground even when it has a LTS Base. You can use it of Course. But for Daily Driver it might not be the best Idea.
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Cinnamon is the most bloated DE of them all, just a look at mint cinnamon, it's the mother of Bloat. Not to mention it has a memory leak that the devs can't/won't fix.
KDE is lightweighted with a lot of features which may be overwhelming for some.
Fire up Solus - Plasma edition and you'll see no bloat but pure pleasure.
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I've been a long time openSuSE user but always on command line servers. I just couldn't get along with KDE. For years I used windows as a desktop but windows 11 is a bridge too far for me and I ditched it in favour of Zorin OS. The Gnome desktop in Zorin works just fine so I've voted to keep Gnome.
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