Then come the update/reboot cycles, the drivers then fetching your softwares from their genuine websites and installing them.

I think enabling steam compatibility for all titles do exactly that?

Imo Kde neon serves as a test bench for whoever want to try the latest KDE DE directly from the kde team, it is not maint for daily driver use though I tried it for a while and it was pretty reliable.

Kubuntu is an ubuntu with kde that is maint to be used for daily driver usage.

It is amazing how 3 steps can be challenging for some even though these are explained in flathub (for all major distros) 1- install flatpak which should install a pluging for gui Package manager automatically. 2- add flathub repo. 3- Configure your gui package manager to default to flathub 4- enjoy installing rhe latest software from flathub without even needing root password (except for Opensuse TW)

I think that is the route we are heading with flatpaks.

Most destros default to Pipewire, even Debian 12.

Flatpak can get you the latest version, not everything can installed using flatpak though.

Well, why not Debian itself. However if you want something Debian based with ease of use then check Spiral linux

Opensuse tumbleweed is woth checking as well. It has a good KDE implementation and you may like Yast and Zypper.

Stability with a compositor in it’s beta stages not a good combo. You want the latest packages that fix bugs and add features in this case.

I switched to sway on both my lapto (13" 1080p) and desktop (27" 1440) to force myself on using workspaces, and man i have to say I was missing out a lot, now I thinking of giving Hyprland a try to for dynamic tiling which sound fantastic especially for bigger screens.

Very persuading coming from a company where half its employees are lawyers.