I tried hyprland. It's okish and very (very) colorful.
For a tiling wm it's just over complex and does not integrate well with other tools. The configuration is a nightmare tbh.
If you want to get your fingers dirty on tiling WM using Wayland Sway is just fine. It's minimalistic and feels almost like i3.
For music: if (and that's a big if) Spotify does not fuck that up they'll have the majority of people off the harbours.
They deliver exactly what people asked for when it was common to pirate music. A monthly affordable fee, +90% of the music available and no advertising. If neither of these three variables are changing, there will be no big group pirating music anymore.