When I first began researching Linux, for my needs, I found the number of different Distros to be overwhelming. So I made this flow chart, with the intent to help new users find a starting point for choosing a distribution.
I'm open to critique, as to making this chart as helpful as possible.
EDIT: Chart updated based on suggestions in the comments.
I use CachyOS myself, and I'm a gamer who doesn't even do development, though I do music production, and do pretty well there. However, I see a lot of Wayland-default distros, which tells me it's a Wayland bias. Mint is an exception, since Cinnamon is working on Wayland support, and it was X11 the entire time, though Cinnamon and i3 (my window manager of choice) works on XLibre.
Edit: After reading the chart, it actually works extremely well, despite me using Linux for about a 4 years (between myself and my producer, Neigsendoig, about 9 years combined experience).