My favorite is people who use “archival purposes” as an argument for having a dump of some shit like SMB + Duck Hunt cart for NES. That shit isn’t going anywhere man, you just want to play it for free and that’s ok.

Try out a floating wm. I don’t know any on Wayland at the moment, but when I didn’t want the full DE experience back in 2008 but tiling was still too daunting, I installed fluxbox and used it for years. It’s simple yet unique and very lightweight.