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> Wayland is still a glitchy, bug-ridden mess, despite

That sucks. As to your specific points:

> If I alt-tab, I need to move the mouse before I can use my scroll wheel.

Just tested this, doesn't seem to affect me.

> Basic Gnome commands (like restarting) are unavailable.

I can tap Command and then type restart and it shows up as an item on the drawer. Fastest way to restart short of assigning a shortcut for me.

> For some reason, Gnome on Wayland can't handle Bluetooth as well as Gnome on X11.

Too early to say for me, but so far, Bluetooth has been equally solid. As a bonus, I discovered Pipewire from the comments on this post and now I can use the headset mode of my Airpods Pro!

> Yes, insofar as recent versions of MacOS have also been glitchy, bug-ridden messes.

The issue with Mac is that a glitch or a bug isn't something you can hope to fix even if you have the skills. Linux affords you that which is very powerful.

EDIT: I run Arch Linux btw.

> I can tap Command and then type restart and it shows up as an item on the drawer. Fastest way to restart short of assigning a shortcut for me.

Then you're not using GNOME on Wayland. Or are you mistaking restarting GNOME with restarting your whole operating system? GNOME is rather buggy, so for years you've been able to restart it (when running under X11) with Alt+F2 and typing restart. This keeps your login session, all your running apps, it just restarts the bugged out GNOME. Very convenient. And in case you want to develop GNOME extensions, almost essential. This is simply not available under Wayland, unless there have been very recent changes?

> Or are you mistaking restarting GNOME with restarting your whole operating system?

Whole OS. In 15 years of using linux, I don't remember having to only restart my desktop environment. But then again, I don't develop extensions.