Bugs happen every gnome version change, it's a given, now it's autorotate not working, but it will be fixed. But extensions just need updating, normally they give an update right before the version launch.
But i never had seen the person on the second painel, gnome development works in this way, if you use a tablet on a bleeding edge distro, you are pratically on gnomes QA team hahahhaha
I have a ThinkPad x1 tablet gen 2. These x1 tablets are very cheap when used or refurbished and you can install any linux distro, as they are using x86_64 cpus.
I use it with gnome and cachyos, the optimizations really help and gnome has, in my opinion, the best touchscreen feel, it's very polished for this.