I agree that Bazzite might be too much, but Aurora or Bluefin from the same maintainers as Bazzite works perfectly fine and has all the auto-update goodness. I have it running on most of my family’s PCs. Just uninstall not needed flatpaks after initial setup.

Endless OS sounds interesting!

This is the correct thing to do when it breaks, recompile and link against the new libs. Otherwise you could see funny behaviour.