After believing i messed something up, googling a lot, going through bugs looking for a clue to no avail i ended up downloading an updated iso of
Neon "User Edition" again. I ran it live on my pc to realize the option is not there either. The option has, sort of, being "officially removed".

I have xfwm installed along kwin, it looks nice on kde plus is pretty low on resources, now i have no easy "clean" way to switch between them.
I see no reason at all, from a common user point of view, as to why this option was removed. May be because some window managers (xfwm, openbox) do not support wayland or have no plans to add support for it in the near future, but still, is an "option" that is no more.

One the things i always liked about KDE is that is has a **** ton of "options", many easily found on system settings...... man i am just

This is from the git log:

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commit 2f83a4434a888cd17b03af1f9925cbb054256ade
Author: Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin@kde.org>
Date:   Tue Mar 8 11:39:28 2016 +0100

    [kcms] Remove window manager component chooser
   
    In a Wayland world it doesn't make much sense to offer a different
    WM anymore. But also on X11 it becomes more and more questionable to
    allow changing the WM. E.g. also tooltips need KWin now.
   
    The provided wms were also questionable with Compiz and Metacity being
    basically dead and openbox the only working one.
   
    If someone still wants to change WM it's still possibly my modifying the
    KDEWM environment envariable.
   
    This change was approved by the shared Plasma and VDG meeting at the
    CERN sprint.


Still but its good to know it was for the greater good.

Don't forget this part:

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If someone still wants to change WM it's still possibly my modifying the KDEWM environment envariable.


If you try it out, and it works, can you confirm here? (and specify Plasma version in which it worked, for posterity )

ivan wrote:Don't forget this part:

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If someone still wants to change WM it's still possibly my modifying the KDEWM environment envariable.


If you try it out, and it works, can you confirm here? (and specify Plasma version in which it worked, for posterity )

Yes that works.

Also:

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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE#Using_an_alternative_window_manager