I think i'm an old school people not looking at fancy design but rather functionality. I got 8 ceiling fans in my house, all KDK brand.
3x Sensa 5 K15Z5-QEY - RM600+
2x K14Y2 - RM400+
3x K14YZ - RM300+
Those are the price 7 years ago.
2x Sensa 5 K15Z5-QEY and 2x K14Y2 is considered use the most with weekday roughly 4 hours per day at mid speed, and 12 hours during weekend served me for 7 full years now (accumulated 12k+ hours per fan), without having a single issue, not even bearing/vibration noise, speed wise remained same as new without capacitor change.
The cheapest K14YZ sometimes is noisy due to cover rattle and those were seldom used anyway.
So you get what you pay, but at least i have no regret with KDK fan, those are 'real fan' doing the job that supposed to do, my relative/friend who use those fancy/decorative fan already change at least once in 7 years due to noise/motor malfunction so at the end the cost even higher.
Nowadays KDK = panasonic? Many people saying both is the same just with different case...