Linux admin with 20 years experience, looking for "beginner" distro - Lemmy.World

I’m over tinkering with my OS. So I’m looking for a distro that “just works” out of the box for my laptop. I don’t care for immutability, declarative config, being fully FOSS or having the newest stuff. I don’t want snaps, or a software center that relies on them. So no Ubuntu. What I do want (ideally out of the box): Important: - as few annoying visible bugs and crashes as possible (looking at you, Ubuntu) - Wayland support - good package selection, so no independent fringe distro - fluid YouTube videos, streaming, pre-installed codecs Less important: - ideally with Gnome - encrypting the hard drive from within the GUI installer - nice font rendering (used to be a problem, but I guess not anymore) - installing Steam with a button press - pre-installed sane-airprint and sane-airscan (automatic setup of my networked printer-scanner-combo) You get the idea. The usual stuff (low-end gaming, browsing, streaming, printing, scanning) should just work. I don’t have any hardware that poses a problem. From what I’ve read, Mint doesn’t yet support Wayland and doesn’t ship with video codecs anymore. (Or am I wrong?) What are the other options? Is Zorin king of the block now? Is Manjaro good now? Thanks for any and all input.