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I can't remember what broke, but I'm on archlinux with KDE, which gives you a choice of X or Wayland. I used X for ages, decided to try out Wayland, and immediately something didn't work. It might have been discord screen share but I can't remember tbh. That's why I'm still using X.
I've been able to screenshare with flatpak Discord on KDE Wayland, without sound (same as X). 8 months ago a Discord dev said "Linux users will see audio sharing supported when we upgrade webrtc and are able to find the time to hook it up to pipewire". You might be thinking of PTT not working when the Discord window isn't focused, some workarounds exist for that.
I hadn't had internet in months and I had installed pipewire before they rolled out the video system fully in Sway and Pipewire itself.
Rebooting and having functional video calls through discord and screen recording with no needed configuration is amazing.
I committed to moving over about 6 months back but screen sharing is the one thing i've still not been able to conquer. I get around it by having a laptop I can share from but it can be quite annoying.
If you're on a distro with pipewire as a new default, it is definitely worth installing because many DE's now use pipewire for screen recording on Wayland, and since that feature rolled out I've never had a major issue with it. (Besides firefox not selecting windows properly)