I wouldn’t say they “hate” it though. XFCE-components used to be common additions to really lightweight desktops (IDK if they still are, haven’t looked into it in a while), because they can actually be used on their own (unlike most KDE stuff) while still being somewhat lightweight compared to Gnome stuff.
wait, are you saying the lightweight DE crowd hates Xfce? what do they like then?
Yeah, it’s a “middleweight” DE.
LXDE, LXQT, Openbox, i3, Sway, FVWM. That sort of thing.
I wouldn’t say they “hate” it though. XFCE-components used to be common additions to really lightweight desktops (IDK if they still are, haven’t looked into it in a while), because they can actually be used on their own (unlike most KDE stuff) while still being somewhat lightweight compared to Gnome stuff.