This entire comment section has me repeatedly thinking to myself "you don't run into that problem with i3-alikes" over and over. My choice not to put up with modern UX bullshit is feeling strongly reaffirmed right now. Not that it needed to be.

> it was always annoying to send an screenshot to someone and have to explain that no, I wasn't using Windows 95

That's not a negative, that's a fringe benefit as an endless source of entertainment.