The oligarchs and billionaires who own the corporate mainstream media and both political parties are the ones stirring up WOKE issues. Why? So you all hate each other and take your eye off the billionaire thieves stealing everything. This is why we can’t have nice things.
I did an upgrade from 5.27 to 6.01 or whatever the latest is, and I had to go through themes and setting files and remove a lot of the old plasma 5 files. It is kind of a pain. I recommend doing a complete reinstall. I am sure some settings file from kde 5 is messing with your configuration. It is a pain, but probably the easiest in the long run.