> I can tap Command and then type restart and it shows up as an item on the drawer. Fastest way to restart short of assigning a shortcut for me.

Then you're not using GNOME on Wayland. Or are you mistaking restarting GNOME with restarting your whole operating system? GNOME is rather buggy, so for years you've been able to restart it (when running under X11) with Alt+F2 and typing restart. This keeps your login session, all your running apps, it just restarts the bugged out GNOME. Very convenient. And in case you want to develop GNOME extensions, almost essential. This is simply not available under Wayland, unless there have been very recent changes?