I actually like using a DE over sway because it builds in a sane set of defaults for everything.
Like yeah I could spend hours of my life trying to configure sway and waybar to my liking while getting some wayland compatible version of redshift going, or, I could just use popOs's gnome and get on with my life.
I used to love to fiddle with all those things when I was younger, and I used to hang out on r/unixporn and appreciate all the cool WMs, but at some point I realized I just wanted a working desktop that got out of my way and let me code.
You really don't have to fiddle with the defaults after that initial /r/unixporn curve, I've started with i3 over a decade ago and I've changed over the years but the core features that are actually useful always are automatic window tiling, desktop / workspace navigation, window navigation, movements and resizing.
Like yeah I could spend hours of my life trying to configure sway and waybar to my liking while getting some wayland compatible version of redshift going, or, I could just use popOs's gnome and get on with my life.
I used to love to fiddle with all those things when I was younger, and I used to hang out on r/unixporn and appreciate all the cool WMs, but at some point I realized I just wanted a working desktop that got out of my way and let me code.