This is a perfect example of how FLOSS is nowadays a truly different type of experience from commercial software: thanks to A/B-tests, software has become so good at manipulating our behavior that it's now often more profitable to optimize software not to be the best at what it's supposed to do but at stealing your time and attention. Ads and (extremely clickbaity) 'news' plastered all over W11 are a prime example, and the exact opposite of what the KDE team are doing here.