Since you were modded insightful i think i should answer.
It really *is* better.
You see GNOME actively drops features and then the drop itself is presented as a new feature. The dropped features will not come back. The developers think its actually better that way. (Its a whole philosophy)
KDE has had some features missing due to the change from 3.x to 4.x. In the beginning quite a bit of features were lacking, but gradually most have been re-introduced. If any are still missing (and it might be the case) then this is considered a *bug*. And it will be fixed in the future (shortage of manpower or developer interest non-withstanding obviously).

Personally, i don'd miss a single feature anymore that i used in the 3.x era and there are quite a few new awesome stuff.

So, yes, it is much much better. KDE does not drop features because it assumes the user is an idiot. There simply was a period that some went missing due to a significant architectural change. The vast majority have been re-implemented and the remaining are a matter of time.
It can't think of a simpler way to put this and i thought it was pretty obvious but apparently some mod disagreed.

You're mistaking this for Gnome. KDE does not drop features (unless they are being replaced by more awesome features)
Any missing features from 3.x versions of KDE are almost always due to lack of time/effort by developers. Not because it was decided to drop them.

The UI freeze every 10-30 seconds is probably Firefox saving its state of open tabs to disk so that it can restore them in case of a crash. This is why it gets worse the more tabs you have open. In about:config check the setting 'browser.sessionstore.interval'.

The *last* thing we need is bored pilots: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh_shsRfXqk (monty python video)

That doesn't seem correct. inotify works on a kernel level and should send notifications to the listening application regardless of how you moved your files (using the CLI or some KDE application) . Maybe i'm missing something that you know?