Merge to `main` branch (Week of 22-Jan-2024)

Cherry-picking commits:

• e4068bf0, 28ae846b, 945357c0, 031364b4, 4ee4ceb2, 1d050b59, f16a78d0 from !201 (merged)
• 24283cc0 from !202 (merged)
• 74a881fe from !204 (merged)
• cc541d48 and c0c3370f from !193 (merged)

Reviewers to check own commits and flag if anything needs to be modified for main

Note: Commit ea161c26 from !201 (merged) will be merged as part of !207 (merged)