KDED causing long delay on shutdown?

This has been happening for IIRC) several months now at least: $ journalctl --boot=-1 --reverse ... May 01 10:44:26 Bree systemd[1210]: plasma-kded.service: Consumed 18.380s CPU time. May 01 10:44:26 Bree systemd[1210]: Stopped KDE Daemon. May 01 10:44:26 Bree systemd[1210]: plasma-kded.service: Failed with result 'timeout'. May 01 10:44:26 Bree systemd[1210]: plasma-kded.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=9/KILL May 01 10:44:26 Bree systemd[1210]: plasma-kded.service: Killing process 1791 (ProfilesWatcher) with signal SIGKILL. May 01 10:44:26 Bree systemd[1210]: plasma-kded.service: Killing process 1722 (kded5) with signal SIGKILL. May 01 10:44:26 Bree systemd[1210]: plasma-kded.service: State 'stop-sigterm' timed out. Killing. <-----------------------* May 01 10:43:03 Bree systemd[1]: Unmounted /run/user/0. May 01 10:43:03 Bree systemd[1]: run-user-0.mount: Deactivated successfully. May 01 10:43:03 Bree systemd[1]: Unmounted /run/user/990. May 01 10:43:03 Bree systemd[1]: run-user-990.mount: Deactivated successfully. May 01 10:43:03 Bree systemd[1]: Stopped Network Manager Wait Online. ... Any idea why? I see some apparently related BZ entries dating back a couple of years, but nothing recently. poc