I’m not expecting an answer as I already switched to XFCE… due to too many bugs with the Budgie image (the last one 23.0.1-230921).
Here is the two main issues I had:
a dark theme is not applied everywhere (in Nautilus for instance, maybe due to GTK4) or randomly in Software Center…
no way to play a video (from my Android phone) with Totem (with all necessary codecs installed)… More, VLC force close at start but it seems due to a libva missing dependency
Waiting for budgie v11, I switched to an XFCE de (no issue yet ;-))
Aside from Manjaro,
There has been bumpiness in budgie due to a number of factors of budgie development.
(see - recent manual intervention required for changing mutter deps)
I think these days its continued, outside of Solus, at