I'll have to disagree, but it's obviously a matter of taste. I hate the excessive amount of point-and-click in KDE: I think it's "fat", slow (tried many distros and even different *nixes) and confusing. I don't like Gnome either and just use openbox+fbpanel+pcmanfm+nm-applet+gedit+QtCreator+gnome-term+ario+smplayer+chromium+libreoffice+my own apps.
OTOH, I'm known to be picky. However, I'd take Gnome anytime instead of KDE: I might add that my first Linux experience was with KDE 3 and, well, let's say I was very glad once I saw the likes of gnome at that time.