I'm really happy with alacritty https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/, blazingly fast and if you're happy with living inside a terminal multiplexer it's really a good experience
I was using it before and I find it heavier than kitty.
Now I am running kitty mainly because of wayland support and I did switch to wayland.
I found Kitty underwhelming. Used it for a while because iTerm was too slow/heavy/I used tmux anyway, but no global hotkey + terrible scrolling made me switch anyway.
Thanks for the kitty recommendation. I'm going to give it a try for a few days.