For casual users, aren't Desktop Environments more important than Distros?

I'm currently using my Linux ThinkPad X1 Carbon for:

• Word processing / note-taking (via Obsidian)
• Internet browsing (on GNOME Web and Firefox)
• Movies (VLC)
• Steam

And... that's it for now? No multimedia editing or non-text-based content creation. No programming yet, but I do use Kate as a text editor.

I'm running Solus, btw.

The question is, if I'm not doing anything technical or specialized, does it really even matter what distro I'm running? imo if I was to switch DEs to KDE Plasma or Cinnamon I'd experience a more drastic change, than if I was to install Ubuntu Budgie. Yeah hardware compatibility might vary between distributions, and differing package management could be an issue. But as far as I can tell, I don't know if it would be a huge difference as a light user to distro hop. I guess different distros might have specific tweaks and themes to their officially supported DEs?