Excel

Which is based on Debian

Because Mint exists and is just ”Debian configured for regular humans”.

Anyone that would rather have raw Debian doesn’t need to be told that.

It’s vastly superior to the systems it replaced

A driver can absolutely freeze the entire computer.

That said it’s not really likely to be Nvidia since so many people are using that one without issues.

Linux people just like to hate on Nvidia and blame them for every possible issue because they’re not open source.

Sounds like you already know the real solution: use KDE

yt-dlp with SponsorBlock enabled

Cachy already switched the default to it over a month ago in a beta ISO, but then they reverted it because it wasn’t stable.

Sounds terrible