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Only thing I find annoying with full volume LUKS encryption is that it makes it difficult to resize partitions, it's a whole thing, but it's a minor hassle and not something I'd do every day anyway.
Why not just encrypt the whole drive and then use virtual partitions within the encryption?
I like to use btrfs subvolumes inside a luks lvm volume for this reason.
VeraCrypt solves this issue. I leave my main OS unencrypted then simply store veracrypt partitions to the size I need and put files inside that as needed. I've dealt with resizing luks partitions and its not worth it. Especially if you build, maintain, or otherwise tinker with you system.
What? Btrfs subvolumes are basically the same as logical volumes. That's somewhat redundant.