I love niri - a new wayland compositor / window manager. Give it a try.
Discussion
Were you using hyprland before?
No. I'm from not-even-a-tiling-window-manager land. Years ago I tried i3 and sway but couldn't get used to them, they drove me nuts and I went back to XFCE. Years before that I used KDE. I encounter gnome all the time too on other people's computers.
But tiling window managers I could never get used to.
Somehow, and I can't explain it yet, niri immediately felt normal and good compared to when I tried tiling window managers before.
Maybe hyprland is better even. I never tried it.
When I tried i3 I also ended up abandoning it, but been using hyprland for a while now and really enjoy it. I heard niri is very similar but with a lot less config needed which for what I value, it means you might have started with the best option 🙂
Do you have a link?
I had stayed on X11 myself because of issues I had with GNOME and KDE Wayland. i3 with Polybar has been solid for me.