After seeing a few distros over the past months from Distrowatch and reviewing discussion of Linux in 2024, it seems to me there are 6 products that almost every major distro, OOTB, will achieve; as follows
Pipewire
Wayland
WirePlumber
QT6+
GTK4+
GRUB2 v12
Some speakers believe there will be no holdouts, while they feel the early adopters will have the least effortless implementations. They all predict X11 will be removed among many top 10 going forward to reduce their need to support X11 and its past.
AS I look over these directions, here, in various forum distros, I foresee a need for a functional graphical display program for Pipewire as it makes plain how the system and its apps are connected to deliver the multimedia experiences so common in today's world of electronics. Today, the leaders I see are Helvum and qpwgraph for this visualization task. Thus, for now, one or the other (developer's choice) should be included, built-in OOTB, in any forum distro(s) released for member use such that it allow them complete understanding of the NEW system interconnections for multimedia.
There seems to be some 'filler" on nvidia, nouveau, and the kernel changes. The push seems to be moving the timetable on this, early in 2024 to be consistent with minor Wayland needs.
This thread, probably should be posted elsewhere as KL distros are not the only forward thinking distros in the Puppyland kennel.