Hey there! So after taking your advice this is the result. Ended up going with the following setup, nothing too over the top:

• OS: Debian 12 - bookworm
• Color Scheme • Everforest - Good vibes!
• Icons • Papyrus
• Terminal • Alacritty
• Desktop • Gnome
• Gnome tweaks and extension for shell theme and dock
• Showoff stuff • cbonsai, catnip (sound visualizer) and ranger (as suggested), still doing the dynamic wallpaper thing but because it’s for KDE Plasma I’ll have to find an alternative or code it myself.