Always interested to read how others are choosing their tools, but if you don't want to get as bogged down in these details and are more inclined towards a roll

Always interested to read how others are choosing their tools, but if you don't want to get as bogged down in these details and are more inclined towards a rolling distro, I can vouch for Manjaro Sway. I've been using it for three ywars now on the original Framework laptop and while it has had some bumps along the way I am happy for the sensible decisions the maintainers have made for me, including most of the items here. Would be nice to see a Debian or Fedora Silverblue equivalent of this kind of opinionated Sway base.