This was sort of true at one point.
Mate is a fork of gnome that continues the classic gnome2.
It should mostly be using its oen stuff, such as mate-panel, mate-session-manager, et al.
In the update announcement:
If so then it is misleading. KDE is pretty solid … the vast majority of ‘issues’ are born out of user configuration (combined with lack of understanding).
I keep no backups and write to you on a Manjaro KDE (Unstable branch) installed back in 2018
