Wayland makes it complicated, at least until the tools mature. In X11 one could do a lot, using wmctrl and xdotool. For Wayland Gnome, you might want to look at “Run or raise” and “Window calls” extensions. “Grand theft focus” might be handy too if you are switching apps across workspaces.

Furniture was a “luxury” item. We had very a few and ugly options, produced by socialist / plan economy manufacturing industry. Quality wise these were meh… Even then one needed to jump through the hoops to buy the ugly and not very affordable furniture. Rumours about new batch coming to a local store and you have a long queue waiting for hours, sometimes days. Anything better imported from abroad, was super difficult to get hold of. Unless you’re a member of the socialist gov and have connections.

As a person who grew up in a socialist country, I say be careful what you wish for.