If your looking to switch between things like stack/float/tile then I'd recommend sway or awesome, sway has the ability out of the box (iirc super+space) to toggle floating whereas in hypr you need to add or uncomment a line granted both are live update configs so you don't have to do the dwm rebuild type kerfuffle but still it's one more thing to get up and running where like I said sway has it natively and awesome has rules for auto-tiling. I've used all three pretty extensively and while I love hyprland for its animations I feel it's config needs a lot of tweaking, honestly so does sway and awesome but I still like them > hyprland.

1st turnoff for me was the creator added this anime background which overwrote whatever background you had. I found the file and wrote a hook to automatically delete it on update reverting to mt background, only to find that there was a condig option to do the same thing

2nd The maintainer is a bigot and I won't support bigotted projects when there are other (better) options like sway which I know use.

TLDR: Creator violates Wheatons Law. I don't like that.

I started using cosmic de which supports both and it's been nice despite not being complete

If you prefer stacking then maybe wayfire is worth taking a look at. It's a stacking compositor but it has eyecandy as well.

I use labwc .. it's basically OpenBox as a Wayland Compositor. Some things/programs work better than Hyprland, other things worse. No animations - just get out of your way functionality.

I found a patch that allows manual tiling and focus (eg. alt-tabbing just for windows in the left half of the screen), which is cool.

Scriptability isn't there, but the code looks pretty clean.

The config file is similar to OpenBox. I miss multi-layer keybindings though.

You might try tabbed mode instead of stacking mode. It's great, as mentioned in some comment I made, I'm not a tiling guide, but the tabbed mode on sway is great. I would guess it's available on hyprland since it borrows some concepts from sway. However if you find a lot of trouble on hyprland enabling it (I guess you shouldn't) you might try sway. Beware you need exceptions because otherwise everything shows up maximized, but that's not hard byt reading the man pages, compositor documentation, and looking around on the web. BTW, on sway this global config gives tabbed mode on all workspaces: workspace_layout tabbed and of course you can chenge it to stacking, or tiling whenever you want on any workspace...

... that there ...