That’s the way I see it as well. Some distros are going to want to or be forced to comply with the laws, so offering the option seems sensible on systemd’s part.
Systemd is not forcing distros that don’t want to comply to use the field.

It is for their target audience. They’re not talking to you, they’re talking to their customers.

I can’t even find a single positive comment on YouTube. Maybe there is still some hope for the games industry, when absolutely everyone is starting to reject the Gatcha/GaaS/MTX slopware.

From PLMs GitHub:

Plasma Login is in a prototype state and is not considered ready for real-world usage.

I just tried it out anyway, because SDDM sucks. PLM no longer uses the lowest common resolution for all displays and HDR works about as well as it does in plasma (sometimes I get a black screen and have to turn the display off and on). Still better than SDDM. It also integrates with KDEs system settings so it’s easy to setup.

Auto-login does not work however, so I’ll be sticking with SDDM for now, but I’m looking forward to the stable release.

Steam and Heroic already block sleep while a game is running. For everything else gamemoderun can be used, which also blocks sleep. It’s a nice fix but it’s not as big of a deal was it may seem.

Not sure about Lenovo, but I would never consider an ASUS laptop after they have been found trying to scam people on warranty issues repeatedly.

Current summary of the Gamers Nexus investigation with links to related videos