@Asperamanca, you'd be as surprised as me, per discuss.kde.org/t/173/17 and discuss.kde.org/t/13920. Although the focuses are on a very specific (albeit important topic), the latter cites some very verbose criticisms from developers. I'm of the hope it's Kirigami's fault, rather than QML's. However, when I've tried pure QML on Plasma, it's looked worse than even Kirigami does. I'll presume that that's because the original creators of Kirigami attempted to style QML initially, and solely after they realised that they couldn't to their satisfaction, created Kirigami.
I'd say that this is in comparison to their QStyle, which doesn't require a middleman to style QtWidgets-based applications. However, considering the Union project has recently come to fruition, that might not be true. Though, it might instead be because they need to style QML so heavily that they can't feasibly maintain a QStyle and QQuickStyle.
I'll merely wait a little for Union to be released, to see whether the styling improves across platforms. The FluentWinUI3 were a significant improvement, after seeing them in use in NextCloud on Windows 11. It'd be nice if solely one technology were the future, whether QML or QtWidgets.