What problems did you even run into that would cause you to lose a whole weekend? If we’re dealing with anecdata, I never had an experience that bad even when having to use bumblebee/primusrun/etc on a laptop; my last desktop Linux install was with an RTX 2060 and it was pretty much painless using X.
Also, it’s not defaulting to installing the driver anyways - as described in the article and its sources, what Fedora is actually planning to do is to change GDM’s udev rules to select the Wayland session by default if the proprietary drivers are running.