That’s never stopped them before.

Plasma 6 was released in Feb 2024, 6.4 is about due. I suspect 7 won’t happen until Plasma and applications need to be ported to Qt 7.

I think Nvidia drivers are the only real pain point left.

Nvidia drivers pretty much just work now, even on Wayland. On the rare occasion they don’t, it can be a pita to sort out though.

The only person you’re spiting is yourself.

It also says cake day underneath the 2 years ago, or at least I see it on the web client.

It’s not the end of “it doesn’t work on Wayland”, just the end of an alternative that does work in such circumstances. That said, since explicit sync was merged into the Nvidia drivers, I’ve had no problems with Wayland / Plasma.

Probably activity monitor is counting buffers and caches which btop isn’t.

That’s not true anymore, there’s distros like Alpine which are not built using gnu tools.