First, some of us have had different experiences from mine installing Debian Trixie. That's because this time around I was testing the one-desktop tryout CDs, not the full-tilt install. So questions you get from the net installer you do not get from the one-desktop versions. Which is a crime, but there you are. (Also, trusting its partitioning is fraught with peril: I had to dump out of some software installation because / ran out of space, so I had to boot from a system rescue disk on USB and run GParted to make enough space.)
Second, I've said ugly (and I think deserved) things about LXQT, but it does have one brilliant feature, in its little "Featherpad" equivalent to KEdit: As with KEdit, it will let you open files to which you do not normally have write permission, and even edit them. But unlike KEdit, if you make changes and try to save them, it prompts you for a password. That is a huge improvement in usability. Adding something like that to KEdit, unless it is overly complicated, would be a real plus.