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I'm not reading through that entire rant but 2 things I noticed with mouse input on Wayland:
On KDE, the mouse acceleration is horrible by default. However, setting "Pointer acceleration" to "None" in the mouse configuration solves pretty much all my mouse input issues on Wayland.
Also, I noticed that there is quite a difference between default polling rates on wireless mice vs wired mice. When connecting my Logitech Pro X wirelessly I get a 1000 Hz polling rate but if I connect it wired, the polling rate falls back to 250.
This sounds like some silly bug in libinput.
There's nothing in wayland that would care about whether a mouse was connected wirelessly, but libinput may not be detecting it properly when wired. I'd try reporting it, the fix is likely to be trivial.