or just slap a “sleep 5 &&” in front of the command in your hyprland config. e.g. “exec-once= sleep 5 && qbittorrent”

I use Tree Style Tab for the sidebar and Simple Tab Groups to get workspaces. They work quite well together. Customize userChrome.css to get rid of the sidebar header and other things and you get something like

It does indeed work. I've been playing ffxiv on linux with plugins since the release of endwalker. If you're on arch, you can use the xivlauncher package from the aur. Or if you're not on arch, there's a flatpak for it (which is what is recommended for the steam deck for example)

IMO, just ignore the grading system and have fun. Once you're hooked enough and actually want to improve, that's when you will want to start paying attention to it.