Unfortunately no, the panel layouts aren't there by default. However, I've written some guides that can help close the appearance & capabilities gap.

https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/12gyjpg/debian_mate...

https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/13ueaub/debian_12_m...

Thank you for those links, since tomorrow I expect most of Reddit to go dark I took the liberty of archiving them so I can be sure I can go into more depth then.

https://archive.is/iH9un

https://archive.is/R0oBe

https://archive.is/IKViC

https://archive.is/1Pyzs