KDE is very receptive to community help! I can only think of one specific example in KDE history where a developer dragged their feet in the mud about a change the community wanted/submitted pull requests for, and thats the vertical HTML indicator bar in kmail.
For me, I use the office suite at work, and one of the simplest things that makes me wish i could use it at home is that damn search bar in the top.
After that, I appreciate that libreoffice introduced the ribbon UI. I grew up with word 2003, so i know what it was like, but after they introduced the ribbon ui, it immediately felt more easy to use. Especially the style picker.
Those are a lot of great questions that I don't think I have the answers to unfortunately. It's possible it has different uses, but in both layman use and in professional experience (developmental disabilities, anxiety), grounding seems to have the same meaning. There is a thing called "grounding exercises" or "grounding techniques" that are used to, as I mentioned, bring the person experiencing the heightened state of emotions back down to a stable state.
A friend of mine got the Deck HD and it looks good. I couldn't tell too much of a difference between it and the stock screen's color gamut but it was good regardless. The only thing I noticed off about it was that the pixels around the edge of the bezels seem to be underneath it a smidge, giving a weird effect of the edges getting cut off if you look at it at a weird angle.
I'm fairly techy, though I've been trying to move away from a lot of it.
That's understandable, and I did technically answer your question, but 99 times out of 100, when someone asks the question you did, it's out of spite and anger at Wayland becoming default and then the conversation devolves into massive bickering. I was stopping that before it started. I'm not going to reply nicely in case it's the 1 out of 100 chance it was just technical ignorance.
If that's the case, now you have to do what us wayland users have had to suffer through this whole time and set an environment variable to tell it to run in X11 mode :)
If an application only ships with Wayland, then... well, I guess you're using Wayland now.
Wayland is X12 - this is a "get onboard or get left behind" proposition. Nobody's forcing you to switch to Wayland, but life is going to really start sucking for you soon.
As with all Open Source, it requires someone who wants to continue to support it to do so. If nobody wants to support X11 anymore, then it's either your responsibility to pick up where they left off and code the X11 stuff yourself (and ideally give back to the community that's been giving to you this whole time), or pay someone else a lot of money to do it. You don't get to complain about something being given to you for free suddenly not being maintained otherwise.
The only thing putting me off of the oled model... is the oled.
Oled objectively looks better - for 1 to 3 years.
My wife's name is burned into the top of my phone's screen, which is oled.
If they offered an improved LCD model with a higher color accuracy panel, refresh rate, and VRR/HDR like the oled panel, and all the other improvements, i would instantly be all over it.
Patent troll murdered them