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KDE Plasma? I haven't used it personally but from looking at the screenshots and videos featuring it, I think it looks good aesthetically.

And the trope that KDE is bloated hasn't been true for the past 6 or 7 years too.

I'll concur that it looks really good, but it's also pretty buggy. (fully updated KDE Mint)

Report them upstream if you have the time. I'm looking to give all popular DEs a chance in an Arch Linux VM pretty soon.

Ever since moving to just a window manager (awesomeWM to i3wm) I've not felt the need for a full-fledged desktop environment.

For KDE you might want to go with KDE Neon