I prefered Gnome on a Yoga 7, while still running Plasma on my Desktop. I guess especially for someone coming from macOS Gnome all the way.

I did use Clicker on Wayland - available on Flathub.

Accurate once again

Same here! My screen was not rotating in the beginning (relatively new hardware I guess). I was not to annoyed by it - but received a kernel update that fixed it without me doing anything, which was nice.

Shotcut definitely works with Linux. Flatpak, Snap, Appimage, Tarball you choose.