I will give you that. However, it is a goal of KDE 4 to match KDE 3 in
features and usability
No. This is not the goal of KDE4.
What is the direction of KDE 3? Seriously, Ilya, please post a specific example of a fix that would help make KDE 4 closer to KDE 3
I think they should simply revert all changes made after KDE3.5. I know no useful changes since then.
However, even though you have the right to continue using and developing KDE 3, nobody is doing that.
I think KDE3.5 does not need too much development now. It's OK as of current state. Sometimes it is evident that vandalist "development" is much worser.
My goal is to make KDE 4 as good as KDE 3
Well, revert all changes since KDE3.5 and it'll be as good.
I am not advertising nor spamming.
Well, better description is 'crusading'. Like coming to a synagogue and trying to convince everybody that Judaism is 'outdated'.
I have no need to ask Gnome or XFCE
users what their DE provides that KDE 4 does not, because their DE is not abandonware.
'Abandonware' is a term from proprietary world.
Ask Gnome and XFCE users what KDE 4 is missing for
them would in fact be trying to get converts.
Just the same here.