Hyprland is great but if you do not have experience with it I would advise you to install KDE or Gnome while you build configs and workflows for it.
About how does it behave in OpenSuse I can't say nothing about it, but the guys at SUSE are all about stability, so as long as it is in the official repos you should be fine, otherwise third party repos might do fine as well.
Yeah John blame it on the cat !!! We all have intrusive thoughts but don't follow them through!!!