having to configure and go into console 24/7

You're not running any Linux that I've used in the past ten years then. What relic of a bygone age are you running?

Yeah, when I grokked that simple fact pointers became easy.

There's always a destructor though. It may do nothing but it's there.

He's very talkative and makes the best noises

If you want a terminal gui, then ncurses may be suitable which you can also use in c++. Qt and Gtk have c++ bindings.

It's objectively worse. Fancier but objectively worse.

Another big, distracting pop-up that has no benefit over the existing tool tip which is still distracting when it pops up unintentionally. Also the preview will use more system resources.

I created a systemd service by putting the following in /etc/systemd/system/disable-mouse-wakeup.service

[Unit]
Description=Disable Mouse wakeup triggers

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/bin/sh -c "echo XHC0 > /proc/acpi/wakeup"
ExecStop=/bin/sh -c "echo XHC0 > /proc/acpi/wakeup"
RemainAfterExit=yes

[Install] 
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then I ran sudo systemctl enable --now disable-mouse-wakeup

It works perfectly on my AMD machine.

That's fake! There's no way you're winning a prize that good from one of those.

Are there any programs that can animate a cat to chase my mouse across the desktop?

oneko

Well you tried your best

I think it's mostly do with the carelessness of the devs. They've let their certificates expire multiple times (and suggested their users put their clocks back as a workaround) and DDOSed the AUR a couple of times by accident. To be fair, I haven't heard of any foul ups in a long time so maybe they're being more careful now.

By reading the message and using basic comprehension. If you don't know what something is in an error message then google it!