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Ah. Guess the steam deck must still run X11? That's currently my primary computer, so I haven't had to learn about/deal with X11 vs Wayland quite just yet.
Yes, the desktop mode uses Plasma on X11 by default. It can be changed, but X11 is still perfectly functional and Wayland doesn't have a lot of advantages in that particular use case.
Big Picture (and the games launched from it) uses an entirely different compositor called GameScope, which is developed by Valve and is meant specifically for games or other single-window applications. It can also be used in a nested setup inside another compositor.