On a modern PC, you expect your high-end NVMe drive and multicore processor to give the best performance. That's why I couldn't accept that my hardware was the problem after noticing micro-stutters ...
Linux Mint will be slowing down how often it releases its namesake distro. We'll still see the next distro not long after Ubuntu 26.04 appears. Mint will continue to support X11 and Wayland for now.