I think a lot of people would like this tiles-on-dashboard functionality: to see what’s available and have these tiles automatically update themselves over time.
I am personally not interested in such a setup, but from what I’ve seen around the forum (and this is the only experience I can share, without going down to the nitty-gritty), people use: Note Gallery, Image Gallery, Page Gallery plugins (there may be different names), but these will probably take the whole page on their own and will not be able to be embedded in a modular layout and their templating options may be too niche to learn (or too rudimentary).
So your best bet would be to use multi colums with your own CSS hacks, maybe along with some of the functionality of the Tabs plugin (one implementation is found here), and inside of these elements you would add your Dataview or DataviewJs queries, or with live filtering options you can try Datacore, featured also in the vault with the link above.
For inspiration and more interaction with how to put elements together I’d say you’d probably have more luck on a Discord channel or Reddit where people come off as more trigger-happy, or can start off on a demo vault like the one mentioned above and slowly work your way around it.