Draft: Merge to `main` branch (Week of 11-Dec-23, Part 1)

Cherry-picking commits:

• 4853a4d0 from !160 (merged)
• 53b6838d from !161 (merged)
• b4ed87f2 from !162 (merged)
• bb28d9a5 from !163 (merged)
• abf05a64, 11c097d1, and 5e7a8eba from !164 (merged)