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Just to answer myself a bit:
It is a bit jank and is not a true Lutris replacement as it is still just a prefix manager, but installing standalone games in Heroic seems pretty painless. It can generate a steam entry if I want to launch it that way and their logic for fetching icons seems pretty seamless. Just reinstalled Guild Wars 2 in it and grabbed Guild Wars 1 in prep for Reforged tomorrow.
It DOES raise the problem of also being where I install my GoG games and my tendency to use GoG for some adult playtime games (will never understand why anyone plays those on Steam. We know why you went offline for 15 minutes...) but that feels like more of a me problem.
I dunno. If Faugus can find a way to take advantage of user scripts for the more janky/modded installs, that would be awesome. But if all it does is set up a prefix and let me pick a few options? I already got that?