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If there are any plans I don't know but what I can tell you is that there's currently no way to circumvent these "restrictions" - because there are none.
Although from a user perspective it feels like something got taken away from Wayland perspective it's the other way arou d: screensavers want rights that Wayland simply doesn't provide to any user space application.
A screensaver needs to track user interaction globally (for the timeout), overlay over existing apps, manipulate viewport properties, manage the session and similar things, depending on the details.
Depending on what you want there might be ways to hack something together though.
Then there's of course the disclaimer that although I'm not ab LLM my training data (aka experience) might be out of date :D
It sounds like something the session lock protocol can be used for
https://wayland.app/protocols/ext-session-lock-v1