As someone who sits in my own little X desktop world of a peculiar fvwm based configuration (with various pains ensuing from this), I applaud doing the kind of 'go your own minimalist way' that is the thread at https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/113722479490964091
(Having used Unix through serial terminals or modems+emulators thereof back in the days, I am not personally interested in going back to a single text console/window experience, but it is certainly an option for simplicity.)