First time I heard of Gitee, I don’t think it’s that popular. Also, their website appears to be in Chinese only.
Gitea on the other hand is pretty popular, but after some controversial decisions, Forgejo was born and it started getting a lot of traction.
I’ve been daily driving Hyprland for 4 years now. Before that it was DWM, and before that Gnome. I was never a KDE fan, don’t know why… I never disliked it, I just preferred Gnome.