This is really interesting (to me anyway).
I normally just default to using Gnome Terminal on Linux, which sadly doesn't support Sixels, so I'll definitely give this a go.
Looking around I've just found Foot, which looks like it does support Sixel on Wayland[1].
So that might be a more permanent way forward.
You might wanna consider avoiding all VTE based terminals (includes GNOME termina) on Linux because VTE development is spearheaded by GNOME developers. They're almost always guided by their "every preference has a cost" philosophy so don't expect any decent changes happening to VTE.
Here's another explanation why VTE based terminals are best avoided.
https://github.com/thestinger/termite
Here's a complete list.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications#VTE-ba...