This is amazing. Love it :) such a cozy vibe

Be a bit careful on what you read on the Internet regarding performance of either of the two. For some reason there is a lot of tribalism around people’s favorite DEs which leads to a lot of misinformation.

Gaming Performance is almost the same, just pick what works best for you: https://www.phoronix.com/review/kde-gnome-wayland21/4

Across all the games tested both native and titles via Steam Play (Proton + DXVK), the GNOME Wayland session most often was showing the best performance and across the wide range of tests carried out came to about 4% better performance than the GNOME X.Org session. The KDE Plasma Wayland session tended to perform slightly in front of its X.Org session as well for these Linux gaming tests but there were a few games still running into problems with the KDE Wayland session.

It is not common, true but yoshis crafted world is another ue example. It might get more common

What important advances are we talking about. Would be honestly interested, though I have to confess that I feel it might not be that much or big of a practical positive effect for society?

I mean Pikmin 4 has AA

Absurd is too strong of a word, but 100$ ain’t nothing. Not for everyone.

Oh that’s surprising, sad to hear. But at least, as others wrote for understandable reasons. I loved shadow tactics. It felt like such an alive little world and had a surprisingly enjoyable story and good characters. And then Desperados 3 continued to deliver on that. Hope the people find good positions elsewhere or manage to build something on their own.