"Dumbed down implies that features were intentionally removed"
You're right, that was not my intention.
I want to state that personally I'm perfectly happy with KDE 4, even with 4.0. I've been using
it since Fedora 9 came out (compiled from source and played around with it before, but not as
my main DE) and am eager to know where it will all take us. What I don't care about is the
tone discussions in "the community" (if such a singular beast exists) are taking as of late.
Pity.