It’s not appropriate. It’s the distro maintainers who force their users.

Why is the burden being put on the developers and not the distro maintainers that (potentially/allegedly) prematurely implemented the new(?) thing?

insert xkcd dependency comic

OS age verification?

Really like River. Written in zig btw, which is something to potentially consider given the language’s adolescence. By default river ships with rivertile as its wm which is quite limited (no monocle layout or per tag configuration). Rivercarro is a fork of rivertile that adds these settings and others so I’d recommend starting there. I also just really enjoy doing all the configuring by default with a shell script.