@roland I have been using sway the whole time I've been travelling (almost 3 months) and it has been pretty fine. Wallpaper never worked, but otherwise just werked. Granted, I was using it minimally, running stuff like finch and wc3 directly in other ttys instead.
Only in the last few days did I really try integrating them, and worked out that foot and alacritty both have a bug that prevents you using finch, but it's specifically related to them, not to wayland or sway.

So today, about an hour ago, I opened hyprland. "auto" scaling mode for some fucking reason defaults to 1.5 which screws with wine's virtual desktop (though I wonder if I need it under these circumstances). Also wallpaper requires deferring to some other program and hyprpaper's docs straight up say the way to use it to rotate through a folder is with an empty config file and a shell script. Otherwise mostly just werking.

(Thanks to @djsumdog@wherever the fuck for the recommendation, his blog post about hyprland basically said "better sway".)