I'm not missing the point. I understand their policy and it makes sense to me. They cannot really afford to be supporting not only older versions but their implementations in random distros. That's all they'd ever have time for if they did.

I don't think you mentioned the patch before, and that part is shitty, but if you blamed them for borking your system.. that combined with the constant annoyance of people complaining about a free product, I can see them not being willing to help further.

KDE looks like trash to me, like an unstable nightmare. The other desktops don't seem great to me either. So I'm sticking with gnome for the foreseeable future