The focus on terminal stuff without too much bloat by default is also a huge plus.Prob the reason why i hated garauda (Idk if is it because i picked the dragonized gaming ver)
I wonder what you will think of lmde its linux mint with a debian base instead of ubuntu (It keeps some stuff for eg the desktop updated).
You can get experimental wayland in lxqt tho, you need a window manager that supports it and a package,but xfce is currently implementing it.
I wish it was not hard getting nvidia drivers on opensuse.