I think you have to just try and find your favorite.

Live boot Manjaro Sway to see how the bestly configured Sway works. If you like Suckless appoach, then try dwl.

I never tried Hyprland but I recommend to try it.

Harder task is the bar. Yambar and Waybar are both hard to configure compared to dwm statusbar.

I don’t follow him but in this particular blog post he’s 100% right. Why Linux Foundation funds the Metaverse at all?

Pop_OS! is your choice.