Yeah, that trampolinerocket looks very nice indeed!
As for scaling, I know that recent Ubuntu (and other Gnome distros) [pre-]releases do detect high resolution screens and apply integer scaling if possible. Kubuntu fails in this regard just like Manjaro Plasma edition. In essence, might be a KDE problem.
Please - grow up … and spare us the condescending remarks - they are completely unnecessary.
No one does that.
I completely back the team decision to follow upstream Mesa and there is nothing you can say to make that decision dubious or questionable.
Some of us got productive and tried to work out a viable solution that would be usable withing the Manjaro branch system.
My initiative - sparked by other forum members - to create a PKGBUILD you could use to build mesa with non-free codes - again sparked me to create the mentioned Github organisation with a non-free repo - which then again sparked team members to participate in making it a viable solution by creating the necessary github actions to autobuild for Manjaro branches.
Yes you need to add a 3rd party repo - and precisly because of this - the need for any use to actively change their configuration - creates the loop-hole needed for end-users to have the non-free codecs - supported by their hardware - but due to licensing - and the last link in the chain principle - cannot be supplied directly by Manjaro.
So neither Philip nor Bernhard or any other team member was involved at first - they only participate as community members helping the community creating a workable solution that fits the Manjaro package eco-system.
There are reasons to have the repo still hidden as we still have to see for legal reasons who of the community wants to host it. Currently it is hosted in the USA but that is exactly where it shouldn’t be hosted to begin with. France would be one place which might fit with given laws. I just saying that there is some community project ongoing, and also tested in a small internal group on daily basis, but it needs to track all the branches and create automated updates per branch updates. That technology got established and is ready to been used.