videos above 1080p can sometimes cause problems if they have heavy encoding like vp9 or av1

Yeah they’re probably decoded in software because I doubt that the integrated graphics supports hardware decoding of those recentish codecs.

At that point, just put a gt1030 in it.

Are you tried hyprland with animations on?

On my laptop running Plasma, it says the maximum fps is 60 but current fps is going up to 100 in some cases (based on the ‘show fps’ option in system settings). What does this mean for me?

Yeah… I wonder if it’s a specific desktop environment. although I thought people generally considered gnome on the slow side but that’s what my pi runs pretty decently