+1 to that. Exactly the same. I customised dwm way back and keep a
personal version around that I tweak and compile now and then. It's a
couple hundred lines of cleanish C code.
What I love is that I forget it's there. For years I simply forget I
have a "window manager" because to me its a dozen keyboard shortcuts
as a shim for managing terminals. If emacs could do that as invisibly
I'd be a super happy chappie.
Open Source Software used to be about individuality.
They're not actively campaigning to remove other window managers are they? That seems to be a feature of "community software" for whatever reason.