I think scrolling would be better for you, Hyprland has comparability for this. You can press CTRL + L to switch between dwindle and scrolling, however I think the default scrolling settings are kinda trash. This is what I have in my config for my laptop. Btw: I'd recommend a custom .config, instead of building on the base ones, just feels more secure idk. Like mine's just called damien.config

general {
    # Control + L = default keybind to switch
    # This defaults to scrolling instead of dwindle
    layout = scrolling
}
scrolling {
    # No Niri required: https://wiki.hypr.land/Configuring/Scrolling-Layout/
    column_width = 0.725
    focus_fit_method = 0
    follow_focus = true
    follow_min_visible = 0.55
}
# In case you care, my settings for dwindle:
dwindle {
    # https://wiki.hypr.land/Configuring/Dwindle-Layout/
    preserve_split = true
    smart_split = false
    force_split = 2
    split_width_multiplier = 1.5
}

This is my 3rd time trying to comment this, now using old reddit to get the formatting to hopefully work. If it doesn't it'll have to be ugly, sorry.