Desktop state is neatly organized using freedesktop standards. Since components are so modular, it's trivial to replace or modify any of them using any client program you wish.
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This is peak "Year of the Linux Desktop" behavior
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S76 devs have stated they're not going to expose all the possible configurations you can make to COSMIC via the settings app (taking a more GNOME approach rather than a KDE one) but that third-party developers can create COSMIC-tweaks esque applications to modify a part of a desktop beyond the exposed GUI settings. Applets will work in the same way with a handful of 1st party applets that can be accompanied by community ones.