No screen tearing never. My laptop saw a significant battery life boost (basicly doubled) when I switched DWM into DWL but I don't know exactly why.
And because Wayland is the future and xorg decrepatec, why you'd recommend xorg for anybody since they must swtich at some point and I doubt even the most basic user can make that transition 100% flawlessly.
Ox64 by Pine64 is Risc-V based and is missing a FOSS firmware for mechanical keyboard configuring. It costs only 8$: https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Ox64