It's configurable. You can remove virtually any feature yourself. Now if you want to remove the configuration option itself, that becomes a very different question
> This type of behavior is consistent with numerous projects, including Firefox, the Linux kernel, KDE and many, many others.
No, it's not. KDE will work with you to add any reasonable feature that most people would find useful, even at risk of introducing a few bugs here and there. (Gnome ends up having a similar amount of bugs anyway). You can very easily turn KDE into any other desktop you want, even gnome or windows. It provides one preferred oob experience however
Aadhar card actually lessens corruption. Before aadhar government aid could go to whoever. With aadhar the points where corruption can happen is drastically reduced (to 1).