I managed to do a bunch of stuff, in no particular order:

• dealt with window decorations (and, i’m going to go on a quick rant here, i’ve lost my mind trying to understand weston-terminal wouldn’t lose its window decorations even if it seemed like i was doing everything right for a good 45 minutes. Only after that amount of time, i decided that it would have been wise to try another terminal, and would you believe it! alacritty removed its decorations flawlessly! turns out that weston-terminal just… doesn’t respect the decoration config??? anyways, i’m now using alacritty and kitty because they respect the decoration config and have slightly different colors by default.)
• fixed the privileged space’s (the strip above) tiling
• added input!
• oh and changed the background color to a nice mauve i guess

Anyways, have a demo video; you can see alacritty and kitty being alternated because the former has a grey-ish background, and the latter has a black background: