Not really the answer to your question but you should give KDE a try. I have been using gnome for years until buying a matebook 13" 2020.
I tried different things (wayland, patched gnome like in ubuntu…etc) but Manjaro KDE is by far the best out of the box experience. Works well and no screen tearing like in ubuntu and as a bonus i enabled hardware acceleration for video playback on chrome and indeed it works vety well (Intel GPU for my setup)
EDIT: In wayland it works well as well but most of the software has a blurry fonts issue. Some of the do offer a way to run the app in wayland but most of them don’t.